CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2840
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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 configurations
• libexif project libexif (<= 0.6.20)
• libexif project libexif 0.6.14
• libexif project libexif 0.6.15
• libexif project libexif 0.6.16
• libexif project libexif 0.6.18
• libexif project libexif 0.6.19
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49988 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027 sourceforge.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2559 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54437 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1513-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49988 secunia.com
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027 sourceforge.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2559 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54437 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1513-1 www.ubuntu.com