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High ALAS2-2021-1580 1 CVE

Important: libexif security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 5, 2021 · Updated Jan 6, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-0452: A flaw was found in libexif. A possible out of bounds write, due ot an integer overflow, could lead to a remote code execution if a third party app used this library to process remote image data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. 1902004: CVE-2020-0452 libexif: out of bounds write due to an integer overflow in exif-entry.c

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libexif 0:0.6.22-2.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libexif-debuginfo 0:0.6.22-2.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libexif-devel 0:0.6.22-2.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 libexif-doc 0:0.6.22-2.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-0452.html