Bug 839189 (CVE-2012-2841)

Summary: CVE-2012-2841 libexif: "exif_entry_get_value()" integer underflow
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 07:40:27 UTC
An integer underflow in the exif_entry_get_value function can cause a heap overflow and potentially arbitrary code execution while formatting an EXIF tag, if the function is called with a buffer size parameter equal to zero or one.

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2012-07-13 08:21:17 UTC
Created libexif tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 839917]

Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2012-08-10 08:52:11 UTC
Upstream advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29534027

Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2012-08-22 06:51:50 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Fandrich for reporting this issue.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-11 18:17:01 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 7 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 02:14:25 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 8 Fedora Update System 2013-02-08 02:34:44 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.