Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting exempi package, versions <0:2.2.0-9.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EXEMPI-4902254
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Feb 2018

Introduced: 22 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7730  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 exempi to version 0:2.2.0-9.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2048.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exempi package and not the exempi package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. A certain case of a 0xffffffff length is mishandled in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/PSIR_FileWriter.cpp, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the PSD_MetaHandler::CacheFileData() function.