ALPINE-CVE-2012-2837

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2012-2837
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2012-2837.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2012-2837
Upstream
Published
2012-07-13T10:34:59.513Z
Modified
2025-11-19T05:57:43.104871Z
Summary
[none]
Details

The mnoteolympusentrygetvalue function in olympus/mnote-olympus-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error) via an image with crafted EXIF tags that are not properly handled during the formatting of EXIF maker note tags.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10 / libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1

Alpine:v3.11 / libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1

Alpine:v3.12 / libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1

Alpine:v3.8 / libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1

Alpine:v3.9 / libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r0

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1