Advisories » MGASA-2021-0252

Updated exif packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 13 Jun 2021
Modification date: 13 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-27815

Description

NULL Pointer Deference in the exif command line tool, when printing out
XML formatted EXIF data, in exif v0.6.22 and earlier allows attackers to
cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a malicious JPEG file, causing
the application to crash. (CVE-2021-27815).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29038
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/QMC6OTXZRPCUD3LOSWO4ISR7CH7NJQDT/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27815

SRPMS

8/core

• exif-0.6.22-1.1.mga8

7/core

• exif-0.6.22-1.1.mga7