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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 tags. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-20030)
It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. (CVE-2020-12767)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- libexif12 - 0.6.21-6ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 19.10
- libexif12 - 0.6.21-5.1ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libexif12 - 0.6.21-4ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libexif12 - 0.6.21-2ubuntu0.2
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- libexif12 - 0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm2
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
- libexif12 - 0.6.20-2ubuntu0.3
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.