Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-2814: Multiple Vulnerabilities in libexif < 0.6.21 may allow remote code execution
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/13/2012
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
11/03/2017
Description
Buffer overflow in the exif_entry_format_value function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) 0.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF tags in an image.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libexif
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