Executive Summary

Summary
Title Exiv2 vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2454-1 First vendor Publication 2015-01-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-01-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10

Summary:

Exiv2 could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description: - exiv2: EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool

Details:

It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain tag values in video files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-crafted video file, a remote attacker could cause Exiv2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
libexiv2-13 0.24-2ubuntu1.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2454-1
CVE-2014-9449

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.24-2ubuntu1.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2454-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-07-08 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201507-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-0301.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-08 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2454-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-01-09 13:26:21
  • Multiple Updates
2015-01-07 21:23:37
  • First insertion