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Fedora 33: 2021-96a5dabcfa Critical Threat: Mingw-exiv2 Out-Of-Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 33 has released a patch targeting vulnerabilities in mingw-exiv2 that could result in out-of-bounds read incidents. It is recommended to apply the update promptly.
This update backports security fixes for CVE-2021-29470 and CVE-2021-29473.

Summary

MinGW Windows exiv2 library.

This update backports security fixes for CVE-2021-29470 and CVE-2021-29473.

* Sat May 1 2021 Sandro Mani - 0.27.3-5

- Backport patch for CVE-2021-29470

- Backport patch for CVE-2021-29473

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.27.3-4

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

* Wed Aug 12 2020 Sandro Mani - 0.27.3-3

- Rebuild (mingw-gettext)

[ 1 ] Bug #1953710 - CVE-2021-29470 mingw-exiv2: exiv2: out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1953710

[ 2 ] Bug #1954067 - CVE-2021-29473 mingw-exiv2: exiv2: out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::doWriteMetadata [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954067

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-96a5dabcfa' at the command

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 0.27.3
Release: 5.fc33
URL: Summary : MinGW Windows exiv2 library

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