CVE-2017-7544

Summary

CVECVE-2017-7544
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-21 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-06-11 15:15:00 UTC
Descriptionlibexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libexif Project Libexif All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
EXIF Tag Parsing Library / Bugs / #130 libexif-0.6.21 Heap Buffer Overflow due to a programming mistake MISC sourceforge.net Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2214-1] libexif security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0793-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-4277-1: libexif vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500290 Alpine Linux Security Update for libexif
  • 690461 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for libexif (cff0b2e2-0716-11eb-9e5d-08002728f74c)
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