Bug 2346345 (CVE-2025-26623) - CVE-2025-26623 exiv2: Use After Free in Exiv2
Summary: CVE-2025-26623 exiv2: Use After Free in Exiv2
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-26623
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2346447
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Reported: 2025-02-18 20:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 15:54 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:7457 0 None None None 2025-05-13 15:54:55 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-18 20:01:16 UTC
Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A heap buffer overflow was found in Exiv2 versions v0.28.0 to v0.28.4. Versions prior to v0.28.0, such as v0.27.7, are **not** affected. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The heap overflow is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to gain code execution, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as `fixiso`. The bug is fixed in version v0.28.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 15:54:54 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:7457 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7457


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