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Fedora 26: libexif Security Update - CVE-2016-6328 Integer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
To fix the CVE-2016-6328 integer overflow vulnerability in libexif on Fedora 26, follow the steps to apply the latest patch effectively and safely
Patch for CVE-2016-6328

Summary

Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with

extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library

allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.

Patch for CVE-2016-6328

[ 1 ] Bug #1484032 - CVE-2016-6328 libexif: Integer overflow in parsing MNOTE entry data of the input file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484032

su -c 'dnf upgrade libexif' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 0.6.21
Release: 14.fc26
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Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files

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