Synopsis: Moderate: libexif security update Issue Date: 2012-09-11 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-2813 CVE-2012-2814 CVE-2012-2836 CVE-2012-2837 CVE-2012-2840 CVE-2012-2841 CVE-2012-2812 The libexif packages provide an Exchangeable image file format (Exif) library. Exif allows metadata to be added to and read from certain types of image files. 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. (CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841) Users of libexif are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. All running applications linked against libexif must be restarted for the update to take effect. SL5 x86_64 libexif-0.6.21-1.el5_8.i386.rpm libexif-0.6.21-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-1.el5_8.i386.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-1.el5_8.x86_64.rpm i386 libexif-0.6.21-1.el5_8.i386.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-1.el5_8.i386.rpm SL6 x86_64 libexif-0.6.21-5.el6_3.i686.rpm libexif-0.6.21-5.el6_3.x86_64.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.el6_3.i686.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.el6_3.x86_64.rpm i386 libexif-0.6.21-5.el6_3.i686.rpm libexif-devel-0.6.21-5.el6_3.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team