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Fedora 31: 2020-085150ac6e Moderate: libexif Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update to Fedora's libexif enhances security and stability by incorporating the newest EXIF 2.3 tags, facilitating superior management of image metadata.
New upstream release

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.

New upstream release. It largely contains stability, security and bugfixes.

Some EXIF 2.3 tags have been added. See also:

https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/tag/libexif-0_6_22-release

* Mon May 18 2020 Rex Dieter - 0.6.22-1

- 0.6.22

- .spec cleanup

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6.21-21

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1789031 - CVE-2019-9278 libexif: Out of bound write in exif-data.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1789031

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-085150ac6e' 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

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 31
Version: 0.6.22
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files

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