Alpine Linux: CVE-2012-2840: 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
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-libexif
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