Fedora 43 libexif Medium Denial of Service Info Leak Vulnerability
fedora
April 17, 2026
Update to 0.6.26, fixing several CVEs https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/tag/v0.6.26
Summary
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with
extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library
allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
Update Information:
Update to 0.6.26, fixing several CVEs https://github.com/libexif/libexif/releases/tag/v0.6.26
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue Apr 14 2026 Packit
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2457746 - CVE-2026-40386 libexif: libexif: Denial of Service and information disclosure via integer underflow in MakerNote decoding [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457746
[ 2 ] Bug #2457747 - CVE-2026-40385 libexif: libexif: Information disclosure and crashes via integer overflow in Nikon MakerNote handling [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2457747
[ 3 ] Bug #2458177 - libexif-0.6.26 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458177
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-78adb25141' 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: libexif
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 0.6.26
Release: 1.fc43
Summary: Library for extracting extra information from image files
Topics Covered
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