SUSE update for libexif

SA50026

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

24 Jul 2012

26 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.

SUSE 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 via the zypper package manager.

SUSE-SU-2012:0903-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html

openSUSE-SU-2012:0914-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00048.html