Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ExifTool, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Announced

2024-07-24

Revised

2024-07-24

Access

local

Bugs

#785667 #791397 #803317 #832033

Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-27

Affected packages

Package	Arch	Vulnerable	Unaffected
media-libs/exiftool	*	< 12.42	>= 12.42

Background

ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ExifTool. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ExifTool users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/exiftool-12.42"

References

• CVE-2021-22204
• CVE-2022-23935