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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-d8824aeec5 Moderate Exempi Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2018
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A security patch for Exempi in Fedora 29 addresses a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in a denial of service incident. Discover further details.
Fix for **CVE-2018-12648**.

Summary

Exempi provides a library for easy parsing of XMP metadata. It is a port of

Adobe XMP SDK to work on UNIX and to be build with GNU automake.

It includes XMPCore and XMPFiles.

Fix for **CVE-2018-12648**.

[ 1 ] Bug #1594643 - CVE-2018-12648 exempi: NULL pointer dereference in WEBP_Support.hpp:WEBP::GetLE32() allows for denial of service [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594643

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d8824aeec5' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 2.4.5
Release: 4.fc29
Summary: Library for easy parsing of XMP metadata

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