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Fedora 27: 2018-969328b17c Moderate: jhead Integer Underflow Fix

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2018
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A recent upgrade for Fedora resolves a critical integer overflow vulnerability in jhead, corresponding to CVE-2018-6612, and introduces a patch from Debian.
Added Debian patch to fix CVE-2018-6612 (#1542049)

Summary

Jhead displays and manipulates the non-image portions of EXIF formatted

JPEG images, such as the images produced by most digital cameras.

Added Debian patch to fix CVE-2018-6612 (#1542049)

[ 1 ] Bug #1542049 - CVE-2018-6612 jhead: Integer underflow in the process_EXIF function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542049

su -c 'dnf upgrade jhead' 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 3.00
Release: 7.fc27
URL: https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/
Summary: Tool for displaying EXIF data embedded in JPEG images

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora integer underflow jhead

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