Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.21-2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBEXIF-518529
  • published21 Sept 2017
  • disclosed21 Sept 2017

Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libexif to version 0.6.21-2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif package and not the libexif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.