Bug 839185 (CVE-2012-2837)

Summary: CVE-2012-2837 libexif: "mnote_olympus_entry_get_value()" division by zero
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Stefan Cornelius <scorneli>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jrusnack, rhughes, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: libexif 0.6.21 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 839913, 839914, 839915, 839916, 839917    
Bug Blocks: 839036    

Description Stefan Cornelius 2012-07-11 07:36:16 UTC
A divide-by-zero error in the mnote_olympus_entry_get_value function while formatting EXIF maker note tags in libexif 0.6.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an image with crafted EXIF tags.

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2012-07-13 08:17:15 UTC
Created libexif tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 839917]

Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2012-08-10 08:52:24 UTC
Upstream advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027

Comment 6 Murray McAllister 2012-08-22 06:49:22 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Fandrich for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Yunho Kim as the original reporter.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-11 18:16:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1255 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 02:14:09 UTC
libexif-0.6.21-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 02:34:29 UTC
libexif-0.6.21-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.