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SUSE: CVE-2017-18234: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-18234: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
07/27/2018
Modified
05/10/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memcpy with resultant use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a .pdf file containing JPEG data, related to XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ReconcileTIFF.cpp, XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_MemoryReader.cpp, and XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_Support.hpp.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libexempi-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libexempi3

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2067-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3389-1
  • USN-3668-1
  • CVE-2017-18234

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