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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-5393-01 Critical Libexif Issue

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial libexif security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 tackles a severe integer overflow vulnerability classified as high-priority.
An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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: out of bounds write due to an integer overflow in exif-entry.c (CVE-2020-0452)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow security impact libexif CVE issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-0452 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.src.rpm
aarch64: libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.22-5.el8_3.x86_64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.x86_64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.i686.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-5.el8_3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-5.el8_3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-5.el8_3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-5.el8_3.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5393-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5393
Issue date: 2020-12-14

Topic

An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow security impact libexif CVE issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1902004 - CVE-2020-0452 libexif: out of bounds write due to an integer overflow in exif-entry.c

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