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Fedora 43 perl-Imager Significant EXIF Memory Allocation Update Advisory

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Calendar Grey July 15, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical fix for perl-Imager on Fedora addressing EXIF mishandling, memory leaks and allocation issues. Install promptly.
1.033 - CVE-2026-14454: Fix mishandling of large EXIF IFD entry count values — treated as negative numbers, could lead to allocation failure and program exit - JPEG: depend on Im...

Summary

Imager is a module for creating and altering images. It can read and

write various image formats, draw primitive shapes like lines,and

polygons, blend multiple images together in various ways, scale, crop,

render text and more.

Update Information:

1.033 - CVE-2026-14454: Fix mishandling of large EXIF IFD entry count values — treated as negative numbers, could lead to allocation failure and program exit - JPEG: depend on Imager 1.033 for the EXIF fix - Fix thread context object reference count leak in bumpmap and bumpmap_complex filters - TIFF: fix a leak from processing the TIFF warnings buffer (introduced in Imager 1.021)

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security advisory fedora critical exif issue allocation failure thread leak

Change Log

* Tue Jul 7 2026 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.033-1 - 1.033 bump (rhbz#2497664) - Fix CVE-2026-14454

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2497664 - perl-Imager-1.033 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2497664

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-38f958d25a' 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: perl-Imager
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 1.033
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://metacpan.org/release/Imager
Summary: Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images

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security advisory fedora critical exif issue allocation failure thread leak

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