RHSA-2022:1797 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: compat-exiv2-026 security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · May 10, 2022
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for compat-exiv2-026 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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
Exiv2 is a C++ library to access image metadata, supporting read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata, Exif MakerNote support, extract and delete methods for Exif thumbnails, classes to access Ifd, and support for various image formats.
Security Fix(es):
- exiv2: stack exhaustion issue in the printIFDStructure function may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-18898)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.