Advisories » MGASA-2020-0426

Updated libexif packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 15 Nov 2020
Modification date: 15 Nov 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-0452

Description

In exif_entry_get_value of exif-entry.c, there is a possible out of bounds 
write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote code execution if
a third party app used this library to process remote image data with no
additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for
exploitation. (CVE-2020-0452)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27592
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4786
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4624-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-0452

SRPMS

7/core

• libexif-0.6.22-1.2.mga7