NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libexiv2-devel package, versions <0.26-6.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBEXIV2DEVEL-2713586
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed3 Apr 2020

Introduced: 3 Apr 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libexiv2-devel to version 0.26-6.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexiv2-devel package and not the libexiv2-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.