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Fedora 34: 2021-d1d5a0bf0f Critical: exiv2 DoS and Info Leak

fedora
Calendar Grey May 30, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 34 update for exiv2 addresses critical security vulnerabilities, including denial of service (DoS) and information leakage risks.
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-d1d5a0bf0f' 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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 0.27.3
Release: 7.fc34
URL: Summary : Exif and Iptc metadata manipulation library

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