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SUSE: CVE-2016-6328: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-6328: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/24/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libexif-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libexif-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libexif12
  • suse-upgrade-libexif12-32bit

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