CVE-2012-2840

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.

Affected packages (2)

• Alpine/libexiffrom 0, < 0.6.21-r0
• Debian/libexiffrom 0, < 0.6.20-3

References (2)

• ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2012-2840
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2840