CVE-2017-7544 (GCVE-0-2017-7544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-21 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
VLAI
Summary
libexif 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.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1032 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/ x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat, Inc. libexif Affected: through 0.6.21
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Date Public
2017-08-14 00:00
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