CVE-2012-2837

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The mnote_olympus_entry_get_value function in olympus/mnote-olympus-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error) via an image with crafted EXIF tags that are not properly handled during the formatting of EXIF maker note tags.

The mnote_olympus_entry_get_value function in olympus/mnote-olympus-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error) via an image with crafted EXIF tags that are not properly handled during the formatting of EXIF maker note tags.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-13 10:34:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 19:08:00

Affected Software

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif 0.6.14

0.6.14

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif 0.6.15

0.6.15

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif 0.6.16

0.6.16

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif 0.6.18

0.6.18

Curtis Galloway EXIFTag Parsing Library libexif 0.6.19

0.6.19

References

SUSE-SU-2012:0902

SUSE-SU-2012:0903

RHSA-2012:1255

49988

[libexif-devel] 20120712 libexif project security advisory July 12, 2012

Vendor Advisory

DSA-2559

54437

USN-1513-1

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