SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : exiv2-0_26 (SUSE-SU-2022:4208-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168169

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4208-1 advisory.

- CVE-2019-17402: Fixed improper validation of the total size to the offset and size leads to a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp (bsc#1153577).
- CVE-2018-20098: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header (bsc#1119560).
- CVE-2018-17581: Fixed an excessive stack consumption CiffDirectory:readDirectory() at crwimage_int.cpp (bsc#1110282).
- CVE-2018-20099: exiv2: infinite loop in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header (bsc#1119559).
- CVE-2018-20097: Fixed SEGV in Exiv2::Internal::TiffParserWorker::findPrimaryGroupsu (bsc#1119562).
- CVE-2017-11591: Fixed a floating point exception in Exiv2::ValueType (bsc#1050257).
- CVE-2018-11531: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in getData in preview.cpp (bsc#1095070).
- CVE-2021-32815: Fixed a deny-of-service due to assertion failure in crwimage_int.cpp (bsc#1189337).
- CVE-2021-29473: Fixed out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image:doWriteMetadata (bsc#1186231).
- CVE-2019-13109: Fixed a denial of service in PngImage:readMetadata (bsc#1142677).
- CVE-2019-13110: Fixed an integer-overflow and out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory:readDirectory leads to denail of service (bsc#1142678).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libexiv2-26 and / or libexiv2-26-32bit packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168169

File Name: suse_SU-2022-4208-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/24/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, tenable_cloud_security, tenable_self_hosted_container_security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-11531

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexiv2-26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/24/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11591, CVE-2018-11531, CVE-2018-17581, CVE-2018-20097, CVE-2018-20098, CVE-2018-20099, CVE-2019-13109, CVE-2019-13110, CVE-2019-17402, CVE-2021-29473, CVE-2021-32815

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:4208-1

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