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Medium USN-4277-1 3 CVEs

libexif vulnerabilities

Published Feb 11, 2020 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

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)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS libexif 0.6.21-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS libexif 0.6.21-4ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS libexif 0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm1

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6328
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7544
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9278