NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libgexiv2 package, versions <0:0.10.8-4.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.15% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LIBGEXIV2-3731473
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Sept 2018

Introduced: 20 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17282  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libgexiv2 to version 0:0.10.8-4.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1577.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgexiv2 package and not the libgexiv2 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 v0.26. The function Exiv2::DataValue::copy in value.cpp has a NULL pointer dereference.