CVE-2016-6328 (GCVE-0-2016-6328)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-31 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:29
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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).
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
Impacted products
Date Public
2017-07-25 00:00
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