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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2020:5402-01 Important: libexif Threat

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Calendar Grey December 14, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu issues a critical patch for libjpeg in its LTS version, fixing a buffer overflow vulnerability.
An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact out of bounds libexif

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-doc-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
Source: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-2.el7_9.i686.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm libexif-doc-0.6.22-2.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc.rpm libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc64.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm libexif-debuginfo-0.6.22-2.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.s390.rpm libexif-0.6.22-2.el7_9.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5402-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5402
Issue date: 2020-12-14

Topic

An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important integer overflow Red Hat Enterprise security impact out of bounds libexif

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - 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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