Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1512
Advisory Release Date: 2020-10-22 17:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-10-22 22:36 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
An out of bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the way exiv2 parses Canon raw format (CRW) images. An application that uses exiv2 library to parse untrusted images may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could be used by an attacker to extract data from the application's memory or make it crash. The biggest threat with this vulnerability is availability of the system. (CVE-2019-17402)
Affected Packages:
exiv2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update exiv2 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
exiv2-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
exiv2-devel-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
exiv2-libs-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
exiv2-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.i686
exiv2-devel-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.i686
exiv2-libs-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.i686
exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.i686
noarch:
exiv2-doc-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
exiv2-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
exiv2-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
exiv2-devel-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
exiv2-libs-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2.x86_64