Out-of-Bounds Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.20-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.13% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBEXIF-523930
  • published13 Jul 2012
  • disclosed13 Jul 2012

Introduced: 13 Jul 2012

CVE-2012-2814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libexif to version 0.6.20-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif package and not the libexif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in the exif_entry_format_value function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) 0.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF tags in an image.

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