Moderate: libexif security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libexif security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for libexif is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13112

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate