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).

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.1 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2018-10-31

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-190

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Libexif (Libexif Project)
• Libexif (Unknown)

References

• 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/