CVE-2017-7544

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    CVE-2017-7544

    Published: 21 Sept 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/, https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    exif-0_6_21-release

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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