CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-2840

Published: Jul 13, 2012 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libexif Libexif_project * 0.6.20 (including)
Libexif Libexif_project 0.6.14 (including) 0.6.14 (including)
Libexif Libexif_project 0.6.15 (including) 0.6.15 (including)
Libexif Libexif_project 0.6.16 (including) 0.6.16 (including)
Libexif Libexif_project 0.6.18 (including) 0.6.18 (including)
Libexif Libexif_project 0.6.19 (including) 0.6.19 (including)

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