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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.21-2+deb8u2

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.39% (73rd percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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SUSE
3.3 low
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBEXIF-325967
  • published 21 Sep 2017
  • disclosed 21 Sep 2017
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Introduced: 21 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-7544 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libexif to version 0.6.21-2+deb8u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif package and not the libexif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.