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RedHat: RHSA-2020-2474-01 Moderate: libexif Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has released a significant security patch for libxml that mitigates buffer overruns potentially resulting in data leakage.
An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The libexif packages provide a library for extracting extra information from image files.
Security Fix(es):
* libexif: several buffer over-reads in EXIF MakerNote handling can lead to information disclosure and DoS (CVE-2020-13112)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat DoS information disclosure libexif

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13112 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.src.rpm
aarch64: libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.aarch64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-17.el8_0.aarch64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-17.el8_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-17.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-17.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.s390x.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-17.el8_0.s390x.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-17.el8_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.21-17.el8_0.x86_64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-17.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-17.el8_0.x86_64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-17.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-17.el8_0.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2474-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2474
Issue date: 2020-06-10

Topic

An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat DoS information disclosure libexif

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1840344 - CVE-2020-13112 libexif: several buffer over-reads in EXIF MakerNote handling can lead to information disclosure and DoS

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