ALAS-2012-126

Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-126
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-22 21:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:26 Pacific

Severity: Medium

References: CVE-2012-2812 CVE-2012-2813 CVE-2012-2814 CVE-2012-2836 CVE-2012-2837 CVE-2012-2840 CVE-2012-2841 RHSA-2012-1255
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity

Issue Overview:

Multiple flaws were found in the way libexif processed Exif tags. An attacker could create a specially-crafted image file that, when opened in an application linked against libexif, could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Affected Packages:

libexif

Issue Correction:
Run yum update libexif to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:
    libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686
    libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686
    libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686

src:
    libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64
    libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64
    libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841

Mitre: CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841