National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2836

Overview

The exif_data_load_data function in exif-data.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted EXIF tags in an image.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1513-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1513-1

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2559

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2559

External Source: MLIST

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

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49988

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49988

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1255

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0903

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0902

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00014.html