CVE-2016-6328

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).

Affected

[UNKNOWN] · libexif

CVSS v3.1 NVD

8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v3.0 REDHAT

6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 77th percentile

Published

2018-10-31

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• Pazhanivelmani/libexif_Android10_r33_CVE-2016-63280★ · 2024-11-12

Security advisories

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-6328
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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