Attestkeep
Language: English
Sign up

Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-7544

critical

CVE-2017-7544

libexif: Out-of-bounds heap read in exif_data_save_data_entry function

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Red Hat3.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (low), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.11libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.12libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.13libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.14libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.15libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.16libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.17libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.18libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.19libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.20libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.21libexif0.6.21-r3
Show all 38 entries from 36 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.11libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.12libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.13libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.14libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.15libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.16libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.17libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.18libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.19libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.20libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.21libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.22libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.23libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.24libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.5libexif0.6.21-r2
alpine 3.6libexif0.6.21-r2
alpine 3.7libexif0.6.21-r2
alpine 3.8libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine 3.9libexif0.6.21-r3
alpine edgelibexif0.6.21-r3
debian 11libexif0.6.21-2.1
debian 12libexif0.6.21-2.1
debian 13libexif0.6.21-2.1
debian 14libexif0.6.21-2.1
debian 7libexifno fix listed
debian 8libexif0.6.21-2+deb8u2
debian 9libexif0.6.21-2+deb9u2
echolibexif0.6.21-2.1
Red Hatlibexifno fix listed
Red Hatlibexif-develno fix listed
Red Hatlibexif-docno fix listed
root.io debian 11rootio-libexif0.6.21-2.1
root.io debian 12rootio-libexif0.6.21-2.1
root.io debian 13rootio-libexif0.6.21-2.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm1
ubuntu 16.04libexif0.6.21-2ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMlibexif0.6.21-2ubuntu0.1

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.