GLSA-202603-01 : Exiv2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 301499

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202603-01 (Exiv2: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exiv2: 2 out of bounds reads, an integer overflow, and an uncaught exception. The worst of which can lead to a Denial of Service via a crash of the program.
Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux 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

All Exiv2 users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-gfx/exiv2-0.28.8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 301499

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202603-01.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 3/9/2026

Updated: 3/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25884

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 2.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-27631

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:exiv2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-39695, CVE-2026-25884, CVE-2026-27596, CVE-2026-27631

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