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Fedora 33: 2020-e99ef3282f Critical: libexif Integer Overflows

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33's upgrade of libexif tackles various vulnerabilities, especially those related to integer overflow. Grasping the impact and resolution methods is vital
CVE-2020-0181, CVE-2020-0198, and CVE-2020-0452

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.

CVE-2020-0181, CVE-2020-0198, and CVE-2020-0452

* Mon Nov 9 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 0.6.22-3

- Fix CVE-2020-0181, CVE-2020-0198, and CVE-2020-0452

[ 1 ] Bug #1847132 - CVE-2020-0181 libexif: integer overflow in exif_data_load_data_thumbnail function in exif-data.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847132

[ 2 ] Bug #1847134 - CVE-2020-0198 libexif: integer overflow in exif_data_load_data_content function in exif-data.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847134

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-e99ef3282f' 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: 3.fc33
Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files

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