RHSA-2020:4030 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: exiv2 security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 30, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Description

The exiv2 packages provide a command line utility which can display and manipulate image metadata such as EXIF, LPTC, and JPEG comments.

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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4030 — Red Hat Security Advisory: exiv2 security update | PulseLinux