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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0: RHSA-2020:5396-01 Critical libexif Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical vulnerability patch for libexif resolves integer overflow problems in CentOS 8.0.
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: 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat security fix important integer overflow red hat enterprise image processing libexif AppStream E4S

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 E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.src.rpm
aarch64: libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.aarch64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-18.el8_0.aarch64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-18.el8_0.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-18.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-18.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.s390x.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-18.el8_0.s390x.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-18.el8_0.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.21-18.el8_0.x86_64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-18.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-18.el8_0.x86_64.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-18.el8_0.i686.rpm libexif-debugsource-0.6.21-18.el8_0.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5396-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5396
Issue date: 2020-12-14

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 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat security fix important integer overflow red hat enterprise image processing libexif AppStream E4S

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - 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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