libexif: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202007-05

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libexif, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Affected packages

Background

libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libexif. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/libexif-0.6.22"
 

References

• CVE-2016-6328
• CVE-2019-9278
• CVE-2020-0093
• CVE-2020-12767
• CVE-2020-13112
• CVE-2020-13113
• CVE-2020-13114

Release date
July 26, 2020

Latest revision
July 26, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 708728