USN-4987-1: ExifTool vulnerability
10 June 2021
libimage-exiftool-perl could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- libimage-exiftool-perl - library and program to read and write meta information in multime
Details
It was discovered that ExifTool did not properly sanitize user data for the
DjVu file format. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a DoS or
possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.