Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting exiv2-doc package, versions <0:0.27.0-2.el7_6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.21% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EXIV2DOC-4935529
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12265  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 exiv2-doc to version 0:0.27.0-2.el7_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2101.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exiv2-doc package and not the exiv2-doc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Exiv2 0.26 has an integer overflow in the LoaderExifJpeg class in preview.cpp, leading to an out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::MemIo::read in basicio.cpp.