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CVE-2012-2841

This CVE name corresponds to:

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

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-2841
Phase Assigned(20120519)

Description

Integer underflow in the exif_entry_get_value function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) 0.6.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a crafted buffer-size parameter during the formatting of an EXIF tag, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

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