CVE-2012-2837 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2837

The mnote_olympus_entry_get_value function in olympus/mnote-olympus-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

libexif project

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Affected Software

libexif
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.6.14, 0.6.15, 0.6.16, 0.6.18, 0.6.19

Timeline

Official Publish: July 13th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.