NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libexif/exif package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.27% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBEXIFEXIF-2369562
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-27815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. NULL Pointer Deference in the exif command line tool, when printing out XML formatted EXIF data, in exif v0.6.22 and earlier allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a malicious JPEG file, causing the application to crash.

CVSS Base Scores

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