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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-21 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:04
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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
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
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
Red Hat, Inc. libexif Affected: through 0.6.21
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Date Public
2017-08-14 00:00
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