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Fedora 34: Security Advisory for perl-Image-ExifTool 12.38 CVE-2022-23935

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has released an update for perl-Image-ExifTool to version 12.38, which mitigates CVE-2022-23935, improving the processing of metadata.
Update to 12.38 to fix CVE-2022-23935

Summary

ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application for

reading and writing meta information in image, audio, and video files.

It reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile,

Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, and ID3 meta information from JPG, JP2,

TIFF, GIF, PNG, MNG, JNG, MIFF, EPS, PS, AI, PDF, PSD, BMP, THM, CRW,

CR2, MRW, NEF, PEF, ORF, DNG, and many other types of images. ExifTool

also extracts information from the maker notes of many digital cameras

by various manufacturers including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, GE, HP,

JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson,

Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo,

Sigma/Foveon, and Sony.

Update to 12.38 to fix CVE-2022-23935

* Tue Jan 25 2022 Tom Callaway - 12.38-1

- update to 12.38 for CVE-2022-23935

NOTE: 12.38 is not considered a "Stable" release and is not on CPAN

* Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 12.30-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2045028 - CVE-2022-23935 perl-Image-ExifTool: lib/Image/ExifTool.pm in ExifTool before 12.38 mishandles a $file =~ /\|$/ check

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045028

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-f3ab9c77bc' 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 34
Version: 12.38
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Utility for reading and writing image meta info

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