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Ubuntu: USN-4277-1 (CVE-2016-6328): libexif vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4277-1 (CVE-2016-6328): libexif vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/24/2018
Created
02/14/2020
Added
02/12/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexif12

References

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