USN-3852-1: Exiv2 vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• exiv2 - EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool

Details

It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
CVE-2017-9239 only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-11591, CVE-2017-11683, CVE-2017-14859, CVE-2017-14862,
CVE-2017-14864, CVE-2017-17669, CVE-2017-9239, CVE-2018-16336,
CVE-2018-1758)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10

• exiv2 - 0.25-4ubuntu0.1
• libexiv2-14 - 0.25-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• exiv2 - 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2
• libexiv2-14 - 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04

• exiv2 - 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
• libexiv2-14 - 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• exiv2 - 0.23-1ubuntu2.2
• libexiv2-12 - 0.23-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-11591
• CVE-2017-11683
• CVE-2017-14859
• CVE-2017-14862
• CVE-2017-14864
• CVE-2017-17669
• CVE-2017-9239
• CVE-2018-16336
• CVE-2018-17581