Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 652
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 652

Fedora 41: Critical Performance Fixes for mingw-exiv2 CVE-2025-54080

fedora
Calendar Grey October 22, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to mingw-exiv2 for Fedora 41 resolves CVE-2025-54080 and CVE-2025-55304, addressing critical performance and stability issues.
Update to exiv2-0.28.7, fixes CVE-2025-54080 and CVE-2025-55304.

Summary

MinGW Windows exiv2 library.

Update Information:

Update to exiv2-0.28.7, fixes CVE-2025-54080 and CVE-2025-55304.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora segmentation fault performance issue severity mingw-exiv2

Change Log

* Tue Sep 2 2025 Sandro Mani - 0.28.7-1 - Update to 0.28.7 * Fri Aug 29 2025 Sandro Mani - 0.28.6-1 - Update to 0.28.6 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.28.5-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Mar 23 2025 Sandro Mani - 0.28.5-1 - Update to 0.28.5 * Sat Mar 22 2025 Sandro Mani - 0.27.7-3 - Rebuild * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.27.7-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2391816 - CVE-2025-54080 mingw-exiv2: Exiv2 Segmentation Faults [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391816 [ 2 ] Bug #2391837 - CVE-2025-55304 mingw-exiv2: Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391837

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-e5ab9a2288' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Name: mingw-exiv2
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 0.28.7
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://exiv2.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows exiv2 library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora segmentation fault performance issue severity mingw-exiv2

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here