Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2022-23935 (2022-01-25)

lib/Image/ExifTool.pm in ExifTool before 12.38 mishandles a $file =~ /\|$/ check, leading to command injection.

NAME

Image::ExifTool::PDF - Read PDF meta information

SYNOPSIS

This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.

DESCRIPTION

This code reads meta information from PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) files. It supports object streams introduced in PDF-1.5 but only with a limited set of Filter and Predictor algorithms, and it decodes encrypted information but only with a limited number of algorithms.

AUTHOR

Copyright 2003-2008, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

REFERENCES

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html
Crypt::RC4

SEE ALSO

"PDF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm)