CVE-2017-7544
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-21 20:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:04
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat, Inc. libexif Version: through 0.6.21
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