RHSA-2022:1842MediumCVSS 6.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published
May 10, 2022
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

CVE-2020-18898 — exiv2: stack exhaustion issue in the printIFDStructure function may lead to DoS

🎯 Affected products48

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-0:0.27.5-2.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-0:0.27.5-2.el8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-0:0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debuginfo-0:0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)
  • exiv2-debugsource-0:0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-devel-0:0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-devel-0:0.27.5-2.el8.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
  • exiv2-devel-0:0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)