CVE-2016-6328

moderate-risk
Published 2018-10-31

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).

Do I need to act?

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0.69% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.1/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Libexif

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Libexif Project

References (10)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-6328
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-6328
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
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moderate-risk
Severity 28/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate