USN-4396-1: libexif vulnerabilities
libexif vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in libexif.
Software Description
- libexif – library to parse EXIF files
Details
It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2020-0093, CVE-2020-0182)
It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a remote denial of service.
(CVE-2020-0198)
It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or
cause a crash. (CVE-2020-13112)
It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash.
(CVE-2020-13113)
It was discovered libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-13114)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- libexif12 – 0.6.21-6ubuntu0.3
- Ubuntu 19.10
- libexif12 – 0.6.21-5.1ubuntu0.5
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libexif12 – 0.6.21-4ubuntu0.5
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libexif12 – 0.6.21-2ubuntu0.5
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- libexif12 – 0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm5
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
- libexif12 – 0.6.20-2ubuntu0.6
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.
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