Out-of-Bounds Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.20-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    2.85% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBEXIF-326025
  • published 13 Jul 2012
  • disclosed 13 Jul 2012

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libexif to version 0.6.20-3 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The exif_convert_utf16_to_utf8 function in exif-entry.c in the EXIF Tag Parsing Library (aka libexif) before 0.6.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted EXIF tags in an image.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

6.5 medium
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Red Hat

5.4 medium