UBUNTU-CVE-2021-27815

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-27815

    Published: 14 Apr 2021Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-27815

    Summary:

    Details: NULL Pointer Deference in the exif command line tool, when printing out XML formatted EXIF data, in exif v0.6.22 and earlier allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a malicious JPEG file, causing the application to crash.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-27815, https://github.com/libexif/exif/commit/f6334d9d32437ef13dc902f0a88a2be0063d9d1c, https://github.com/libexif/exif/issues/4, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27815

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: exif

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/exif?arch=source&distro=jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.6.22-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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