Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-0452

critical

CVE-2020-0452

libexif: out of bounds write due to an integer overflow in exif-entry.c

Published Modified CWE 190, 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), AlmaLinux (high), Amazon (high), Oracle (high), Rocky Linux (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

In exif_entry_get_value of exif-entry.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote code execution if a third party app used this library to process remote image data with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8.1 Android-9 Android-10 Android-11 Android-8.0Android ID: A-159625731

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alma 8libexif, libexif-devel0.6.22-5.el8_3
alpine 3.14libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.15libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.16libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.17libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.18libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.19libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.20libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.21libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.22libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.23libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.24libexif0.6.23-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
alma 8libexif0.6.22-5.el8_3
alma 8libexif-devel0.6.22-5.el8_3
alpine 3.14libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.15libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.16libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.17libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.18libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.19libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.20libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.21libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.22libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.23libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine 3.24libexif0.6.23-r0
alpine edgelibexif0.6.23-r0
amazon linux 2libexif0.6.22-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2libexif-debuginfo0.6.22-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2libexif-devel0.6.22-2.amzn2
amazon linux 2libexif-doc0.6.22-2.amzn2
debian 10libexif0.6.21-5.1+deb10u5
debian 11libexif0.6.22-3
debian 12libexif0.6.22-3
debian 13libexif0.6.22-3
debian 14libexif0.6.22-3
debian 9libexif0.6.21-2+deb9u5
echolibexif0.6.22-3
Oracle Linux 7libexif0.6.22-2.el7_9
Oracle Linux 7libexif-devel0.6.22-2.el7_9
Oracle Linux 7libexif-doc0.6.22-2.el7_9
Oracle Linux 8libexif0.6.22-5.el8_3
Oracle Linux 8libexif-devel0.6.22-5.el8_3
Red Hatlibexifno fix listed
Red Hatlibexif-develno fix listed
rocky 8libexif0.6.22-5.el8_3
root.io debian 11rootio-libexif0.6.22-3
root.io debian 12rootio-libexif0.6.22-3
root.io debian 13rootio-libexif0.6.22-3
ubuntu 14.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm6
ubuntu 16.04libexif0.6.21-2ubuntu0.6
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-2ubuntu0.6
ubuntu 18.04libexif0.6.21-4ubuntu0.6
ubuntu 18.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-4ubuntu0.6
ubuntu 20.04libexif0.6.21-6ubuntu0.4
ubuntu 20.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-6ubuntu0.4
ubuntu 20.10libexif0.6.22-2ubuntu0.1

References

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