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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-37616: exiv2 security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-37616: exiv2 security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/09/2021
Created
02/25/2022
Added
02/24/2022
Modified
02/24/2022

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A null pointer dereference was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.4 and earlier. The null pointer dereference is triggered when Exiv2 is used to print 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 printing the interpreted (translated) data, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation that requires an extra command line option (`-p t` or `-P t`). The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-exiv2-libs

References

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