CVE-2016-6328 in libexif

Summary

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).

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• Responsible: Red Hat, Inc.
• Reservation: 07/26/2016
• Disclosure: 10/31/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-126344
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-190 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.8
• EPSS: 0.00693
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6328
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6328
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6328/