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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6328: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6328: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/31/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A vulnerability was found in libexif. An integer overflow when parsing the MNOTE entry data of the input file. This can cause Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Information Disclosure (disclosing some critical heap chunk metadata, even other applications' private data).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libexif

References

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