CVE - CVE-2012-2840

CVE-ID
CVE-2012-2840	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:54437 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54437 DEBIAN:DSA-2559 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2559 MLIST:[libexif-devel] 20120712 libexif project security advisory July 12, 2012 URL:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027 REDHAT:RHSA-2012:1255 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html SECUNIA:49988 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/49988 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2012:0903 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html UBUNTU:USN-1513-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1513-1
Assigning CNA
Chrome
Date Record Created
20120519	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20120519)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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