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openSUSE Security Update : libexif (openSUSE-2018-86)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106325

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for libexif fixes several issues.

These security issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-6328: Fixed integer overflow in parsing MNOTE entry data of the input file (bsc#1055857)

 - CVE-2017-7544: Fixed out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure (bsc#1059893)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected libexif packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1055857

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059893

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106325

File Name: openSUSE-2018-86.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2018

Updated: 10/31/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7544

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif12-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif12-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif12, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libexif12-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6328, CVE-2017-7544