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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for libimage-exiftool-perl (DLA-2663-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'libimage-exiftool-perl' package(s) announced via the DLA-2663-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

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.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'libimage-exiftool-perl' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 10.40-1+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your libimage-exiftool-perl packages.

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