CVE-2017-7544
9.1
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 3.3% (pctl 88)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.1), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.1 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.27% — more likely to be exploited than 88% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-125 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2017-09-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| libexif project | libexif |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
- https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
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