ubuntu · CVE-2012-2840

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Priority: low Published: 2012-07-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-2840 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libexif), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, upstream): released 6.

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.

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