High
Security advisory
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).
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-6328
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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).
osv:CVE-2016-6328
Complete source record
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