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fedora
Calendar Grey December 28, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch released for Fedora 27 tackling integer overflow within libexif linked to CVE-2016-6328 security flaw.
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

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.6.21
Release: 14.fc27
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Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files

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