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GSD-2017-7544

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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.
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CVE-2017-7544
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