Out-of-bounds Read Affecting hfiguiere/exempi package, versions [,2.4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.32% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HFIGUIEREEXEMPI-2365705
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7728  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hfiguiere/exempi to version 2.4.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/TIFF_Handler.cpp mishandles a case of a zero length, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the MD5Update() function in third-party/zuid/interfaces/MD5.cpp.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1