CVE-2012-2840

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Off-by-one error in the exif_convert_utf16_to_utf8 function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF tags in an image.

Off-by-one error in the exif_convert_utf16_to_utf8 function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF tags in an image.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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-2012:0903

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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