ALPINE-CVE-2017-7544

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-7544
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-7544.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-7544
Upstream
Published
2017-09-21T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:56:33.952961Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exifdatasavedataentry 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

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.10

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r3

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1
0.6.21-r2

Alpine:v3.11

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r3

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1
0.6.21-r2

Alpine:v3.12

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r3

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1
0.6.21-r2

Alpine:v3.5

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r2

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1

Alpine:v3.6

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r2

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1

Alpine:v3.7

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r2

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1

Alpine:v3.8

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r3

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1
0.6.21-r2

Alpine:v3.9

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-r3

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.17-r0
0.6.19-r0
0.6.19-r1
0.6.19-r2
0.6.19-r3
0.6.20-r0
0.6.20-r1
0.6.21-r0
0.6.21-r1
0.6.21-r2