USN-4277-1

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    USN-4277-1

    Published: 11 Feb 2020Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: libexif vulnerabilities

    Details: Liu Bingchang discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6328) Lili Xu and Bingchang Liu discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7544) It was discovered that libexif incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-9278)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4277-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6328, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7544, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9278

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libexif

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libexif?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    0.6.21-1
    0.6.21-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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