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Fedora 42 mingw-exiv2 Critical Fix for Performance Issues CVE-2025-54080

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for mingw-exiv2 in Fedora 42 resolves performance issues and segmentation faults for enhanced security.
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.

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security advisory fedora critical segmentation fault performance issue 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

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2391818 - CVE-2025-54080 mingw-exiv2: Exiv2 Segmentation Faults [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391818 [ 2 ] Bug #2391840 - CVE-2025-55304 mingw-exiv2: Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391840

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-99df814c62' 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

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Name: mingw-exiv2
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 0.28.7
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://exiv2.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows exiv2 library

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