NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting hfiguiere/exempi package, versions [,2.4.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HFIGUIEREEXEMPI-2365714
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7731  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/WEBP_Support.cpp does not check whether a bitstream has a NULL value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in the WEBP::VP8XChunk class.

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