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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4910-1 libimage-exiftool-perl -- security update

Date Reported:

02 May 2021

Affected Packages:

libimage-exiftool-perl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 987505.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-22204.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in libimage-exiftool-perl, a library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files, which may result in execution of arbitrary code if a malformed DjVu file is processed.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 11.16-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libimage-exiftool-perl packages.

For the detailed security status of libimage-exiftool-perl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libimage-exiftool-perl