CVE-2021-3482: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Exiv2 in versions before and including 0.27.4-RC1. Improper input validation of the rawData.size property in Jp2Image::readMetadata() in jp2image.cpp can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted JPG image containing malicious EXIF data.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: up to and including 0.27.3; version 0.27.4 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 33 only; version 34 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2021-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.