CVE-2017-7544

CRITICAL

libexif <0.6.21 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0052
EPSS Percentile 66.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
libexif_project/libexif < 0.6.21
Red Hat, Inc./libexif through 0.6.21
Published Sep 21, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026