Description
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.
Published: 2017-09-21
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2214-1 libexif security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16555 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4277-1 libexif vulnerabilities
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Libexif Project Libexif
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:04:12.004Z

Reserved: 2017-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7544

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-21T21:29:00.400

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-7544

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7544 - Bugzilla

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