Advisories » MGASA-2021-0259

Updated perl-Image-ExifTool package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Jun 2021
Modification date: 16 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-22204

Description

Improper neutralization of user data in the DjVu file format in ExifTool 
versions 7.44 and up allows arbitrary code execution when parsing the 
malicious image (CVE-2021-22204).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28927
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/09/1
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDKDLJLBTBBR66OOPXSXCG2PQRM5KCZL/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4910
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/SLQ4XG6SNL6OL7SHPBZLVWYCAEZGZW5X/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22204

SRPMS

7/core

• perl-Image-ExifTool-11.300.0-1.1.mga7

8/core

• perl-Image-ExifTool-12.0.0-1.1.mga8