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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7544: libexif Out-of-bounds heap read in exif_data_save_data_entry function

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7544: libexif Out-of-bounds heap read in exif_data_save_data_entry function

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/21/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/10/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libexif

References

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