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CVE-2012-2812

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2812 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the exif_entry_get_value function within the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (libexif) versions prior to 0.6.21. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially extract sensitive information from process memory by supplying specially crafted EXIF tags in an image. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, impacting confidentiality and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.6.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:0.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:0.6.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:0.6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libexif_project:libexif:0.6.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0386 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libexif-0:0.6.21-1.el5_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libexif-0:0.6.21-5.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2812Low

libexif: "exif_entry_get_value()" heap-based out-of-bounds array read

Jul 12, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00015.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1255.html
secunia.com / advisories/49988
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/message.php
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2559
securityfocus.com / bid/54437
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1513-1