Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libexif-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBEXIFDEVEL-1374358
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed4 Jul 2017

Introduced: 4 Jul 2017

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libexif-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif-devel package and not the libexif-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.