CVE-2017-18234

Summary

CVECVE-2017-18234
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-15 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-06 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memcpy with resultant use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a .pdf file containing JPEG data, related to XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ReconcileTIFF.cpp, XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_MemoryReader.cpp, and XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_Support.hpp.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Exempi Project Exempi All All All All
Application Exempi Project Exempi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
exempi - Exempi 2.0. XMP metadata handling library based on Adobe XMP reference implementation. (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libopenraw/exempi) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3668-1: Exempi vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
100397 – Crash with malformed file (jpeg posing as .pdf) CONFIRM bugs.freedesktop.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1310-1] exempi security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377450 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for exempi (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0060)
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