Slackware update for libexif

SA49988

CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841, CVE-2012-2845

19 Jul 2012

Moderately Critical

Vendor Patch

From remote

DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Exposure of sensitive information

Vulnerabilities where documents or credentials are leaked or can be revealed either locally or from remote.

Slackware has issued an update for libexif. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA49857

Apply updated packages

Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/libexif-0.6.21-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz

SSA:2012-200-01:
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2012&m=slackware-security.546794