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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : exiv2 (SUSE-SU-2026:2584-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 323092

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:2584-1 advisory.

 This update for exiv2 fixes the following issues

 - CVE-2021-34334: DoS due to integer overflow in loop counter (bsc#1189338).
 - CVE-2026-25884: out-of-bounds read in `CrwMap: decode0x0805` (bsc#1259083).
 - CVE-2026-27596: integer overflow in `LoaderNative: getData()` leads to out-of-bounds read (bsc#1259084).
 - CVE-2026-27631: crash due to uncaught exception when trying to create `std: vector` larger than `max_size()` (bsc#1259085).

 Changes for exiv2:

 * Minor bugs and fixes
 - Other improvements
 * exivsimple has array index errors when stripping quotes form TIFF parser,Binary array elements should be decoded using the Add option -K Key (--key Key) to specify one or more keys to 'exiv2 -eX' followed by 'exiv2 -iX' produces invalid XMP
 - This release introduces support for Postscript (EPS) images.
 XMP metadata can be read and written from/to EPS images and previews are accessible.
 Further it includes a new build environment for MSVC 64 bit
 - fix build with gcc 4.3 (upstream backport)
 * Fix 'Since v0.14 the version check macro doesn't work in a precompiler

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 libexiv2-27, libexiv2-devel and / or libexiv2-xmp-static packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189338

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259084

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1259085

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-34334

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25884

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27596

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27631

http://www.nessus.org/u?5637105f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 323092

File Name: suse_SU-2026-2584-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2026

Updated: 6/26/2026

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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-34334

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 Score Source: CVE-2026-25884

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexiv2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexiv2-xmp-static, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libexiv2-27

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: 6/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-34334, CVE-2026-25884, CVE-2026-27596, CVE-2026-27631

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2026:2584-1