RHSA-2021:1758: Red Hat Security Advisory: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.The exiv2 packages provide a command line utility which can display and manipulate image metadata such as EXIF, LPTC, and JPEG comments. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: exiv2 (0.27.3). (BZ#1880984) Security Fix(es):

• exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check (CVE-2019-17402) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2019-17402: exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check