Use After Free Affecting exempi package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-EXEMPI-296946
- published 15 Mar 2018
- disclosed 15 Mar 2018
Introduced: 15 Mar 2018
CVE-2017-18234 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:9 exempi.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exempi package and not the exempi package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memcpy with resultant use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a .pdf file containing JPEG data, related to XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ReconcileTIFF.cpp, XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_MemoryReader.cpp, and XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_Support.hpp.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18234
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100397
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=c26d5beb60a5a85f76259f50ed3e08c8169b0a0c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18234
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/