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Fedora 33: 2021-04f7b000fa Critical: exif DoS Security Patch

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
New security update for Fedora 33 fixes critical DoS vulnerability in the exif library. Apply patch promptly to maintain system integrity and safety
0.6.22, patch for CVE-2021-27815.

Summary

Small command-line utility to show EXIF information hidden

in JPEG files.

0.6.22, patch for CVE-2021-27815.

* Mon May 10 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 0.6.22-1

- 0.6.22, patch for CVE-2021-27815.

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6.21-20

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1958808 - CVE-2021-27815 exif: libexif: NULL Pointer Deference may lead to DoS by uploading a malicious JPEG file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958808

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-04f7b000fa' 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 33
Version: 0.6.22
Release: 1.fc33
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Summary: Utility to show EXIF information hidden in JPEG files

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