Vulnerability in Libexif Project

CVE-2012-2840

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.

EPSS: 0.050 (91.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Libexif_project Libexif — versions 0.6.14, 0.6.15, 0.6.16
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

chrome-cve-admin@google.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
chrome-cve-admin@google.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)