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CVE-2012-2837

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2837 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (libexif) before version 0.6.21. It allows remote attackers to crash applications using the library by providing an image with specially crafted EXIF tags, leading to a divide-by-zero error. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
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 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0386 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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-2012-2837Low

libexif: "mnote_olympus_entry_get_value()" division by zero

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