[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#986888: exiv2: CVE-2021-3482

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Tue Apr 13 14:28:15 BST 2021


Source: exiv2
Version: 0.27.3-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for exiv2.

CVE-2021-3482[0]:
| A flaw was found in Exiv2 in versions before and including 0.27.4-RC1.
| Improper input validation of the rawData.size property in
| Jp2Image::readMetadata() in jp2image.cpp can lead to a heap-based
| buffer overflow via a crafted JPG image containing malicious EXIF
| data.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3482
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3482
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1522
[2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1523

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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