libexif could be made to crash, run programs as your login, or expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted file.
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813)
23 July 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
libexif could be made to crash, run programs as your login, or expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted file.
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813)
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2814)
Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2836)
Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2837)
Dan Fandrich discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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