CVE-2021-27815

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-27815
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-04-14 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionNULL 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Libexif Project Exif All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
actually return empty stringand not 'em,pty string' as expected · libexif/exif@eb84b0e · GitHub MISC github.com
NullPointer in actions.c:701:7 · Issue #4 · libexif/exif · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: exif-0.6.22-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
added empty strign check, which would lead to NULL ptr deref/crash in… · libexif/exif@f6334d9 · GitHub MISC github.com
exif: Denial of Service (GLSA 202210-28) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184286 Debian Security Update for exif (CVE-2021-27815)
  • 281172 Fedora Security Update for exif (FEDORA-2021-477809f45f)
  • 281173 Fedora Security Update for exif (FEDORA-2021-04f7b000fa)
  • 281174 Fedora Security Update for exif (FEDORA-2021-b2bd2b1d13)
  • 296061 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 42.113.1 Missing (CPUJAN2022)
  • 710655 Gentoo Linux exif Denial of Service Vulnerability (GLSA 202210-28)
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