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FKIE_CVE-2017-18233

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-03-15 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:12
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.4. Integer overflow in the Chunk class in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/RIFF.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted XMP data in a .avi file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102151Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=65a8492832b7335ffabd01f5f64d89dec757c260Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102151Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=65a8492832b7335ffabd01f5f64d89dec757c260Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
exempi_project exempi *
debian debian_linux 7.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 17.10
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