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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : libexif vulnerabilities (USN-1513-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 60105

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813)

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2814)

Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2836)

Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2837)

Dan Fandrich discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libexif12 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1513-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 60105

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1513-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexif12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2012

Reference Information

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

BID: 54437

USN: 1513-1