Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-126
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-22 21:36 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 17:26 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
Multiple flaws were found in the way libexif processed Exif tags. An attacker could create a specially-crafted image file that, when opened in an application linked against libexif, could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Affected Packages:
libexif
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libexif to update your system.
i686:
libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686
libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686
libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.i686
src:
libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.src
x86_64:
libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64
libexif-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64
libexif-debuginfo-0.6.21-5.6.amzn1.x86_64