Reachable Assertion Affecting libexiv2-devel package, versions <0.26-150000.6.26.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBEXIV2DEVEL-3151596
  • published1 Dec 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2022

Introduced: 29 Nov 2022

CVE-2021-32815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libexiv2-devel to version 0.26-150000.6.26.1 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.

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The assertion failure is triggered when Exiv2 is used to modify the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when modifying the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as fi. ### Patches The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5. #

For more information Please see our [security policy](https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/policy) for information about Exiv2 security.</h3>

References

Regression test and bug fix: #1739 #

CVSS Scores

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