CVE-2021-29623 (GCVE-0-2021-29623)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:11
VLAI
Title
Uninitialized variable bug in Exiv2
Summary
Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A read of uninitialized memory was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The read of uninitialized memory is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to leak a few bytes of stack memory, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4.
Severity
3.6 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-908 - {"CWE-908":"Use of Uninitialized Resource"}
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7664 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Exiv2 exiv2 Affected: < v0.27.4
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