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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-fc9c5969b4 Critical Exiv2 Buffer Over-read Risk

fedora
Calendar Grey May 19, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch for exiv2 in Fedora 27 rectifying numerous buffer over-read vulnerabilities and potential denial of service threats.
Security update for CVE-2017-17723, CVE-2017-17725, CVE-2018-5772

Summary

A command line utility to access image metadata, allowing one to:

* print the Exif metadata of Jpeg images as summary info, interpreted values,

or the plain data for each tag

* print the Iptc metadata of Jpeg images

* print the Jpeg comment of Jpeg images

* set, add and delete Exif and Iptc metadata of Jpeg images

* adjust the Exif timestamp (that's how it all started...)

* rename Exif image files according to the Exif timestamp

* extract, insert and delete Exif metadata (including thumbnails),

Iptc metadata and Jpeg comments

Security update for CVE-2017-17723, CVE-2017-17725, CVE-2018-5772

* Thu May 3 2018 Germano Massullo - 0.26-10

- added patches that fix CVE-2017-17723 CVE-2017-17725 CVE-2017-5772

- moved 0006-1296-Fix-submitted.patch file from sources to package tree

* Tue Feb 20 2018 Rex Dieter - 0.26-9

- BR: gcc-c++

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.26-8

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

* Sat Feb 3 2018 Igor Gnatenko - 0.26-7

- Switch to %ldconfig_scriptlets

[ 1 ] Bug #1545249 - CVE-2017-17723 exiv2: heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::Image::byteSwap4 in image.cpp

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545249

[ 2 ] Bug #1545232 - CVE-2017-17725 exiv2: heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::getULong function in types.cpp

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545232

[ 3 ] Bug #1536904 - CVE-2018-5772 exiv2: Uncontrolled recursion in image.cpp:Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure() can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536904

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-fc9c5969b4' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.26
Release: 10.fc27
URL: Summary : Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library

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