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Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813) Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2814) Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2012-2836) Yunho Kim discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2837) Dan Fandrich discovered that libexif incorrectly parsed certain malformed EXIF tags. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image file, an attacker could cause libexif to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841)

libexif on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , Ubuntu 11.10 , Ubuntu 11.04 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001767.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25