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Fedora 33 FEDORA-2021-8917c5d9d2 Critical: Exiv2 Info Leak & DoS

fedora
Calendar Grey June 9, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security update for Fedora 33 concerning critical vulnerabilities in exiv2, highlighting potential exposure of sensitive data and risks of service interruptions.
Fix security issues.

Summary

A command line utility to access image metadata, allowing one to:

* print the Exif metadata of Jpeg images as summary info, interpreted values,

or the plain data for each tag

* print the Iptc metadata of Jpeg images

* print the Jpeg comment of Jpeg images

* set, add and delete Exif and Iptc metadata of Jpeg images

* adjust the Exif timestamp (that's how it all started...)

* rename Exif image files according to the Exif timestamp

* extract, insert and delete Exif metadata (including thumbnails),

Iptc metadata and Jpeg comments

Fix security issues.

* Tue May 25 2021 Jan Grulich - 0.27.3-6

- CVE-2021-29623 exiv2: a read of uninitialized memory may lead to information leak

CVE-2021-32617 exiv2: DoS due to quadratic complexity in ProcessUTF8Portion

[ 1 ] Bug #1961652 - CVE-2021-29623 exiv2: a read of uninitialized memory may lead to information leak [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961652

[ 2 ] Bug #1961692 - CVE-2021-32617 exiv2: DoS due to quadratic complexity in ProcessUTF8Portion [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1961692

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-8917c5d9d2' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.27.3
Release: 7.fc33
URL: Summary : Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library

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