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CVE-2012-2836

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2013-03-13 libexif -- multiple remote vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-2836
Phase Assigned(20120519)

Description

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.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [libexif-devel] 20120712 libexif project security advisory July 12, 2012
DEBIAN DSA-2559
REDHAT RHSA-2012:1255
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0902
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0903
UBUNTU USN-1513-1
SECUNIA 49988