Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libexif  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
3.27% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBEXIF-10076569
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-7544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read libexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure.

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