CVE-2012-2837

medium
Published 2012-07-13 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The mnote_olympus_entry_get_value function in olympus/mnote-olympus-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error) via an image with crafted EXIF tags that are not properly handled during the formatting of EXIF maker note tags.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.6.20-3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.6.20-3
debian debianforkyfixed0.6.20-3
debian debiansidfixed0.6.20-3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.6.20-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libexif_projectlibexif{"endIncluding":"0.6.20"}
libexif_projectlibexif0.6.14
libexif_projectlibexif0.6.15
libexif_projectlibexif0.6.16
libexif_projectlibexif0.6.18
libexif_projectlibexif0.6.19

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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