CVE-2017-7544

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7544
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7544.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7544
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-09-21T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:46:10.345432Z
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

Debian:11

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14

libexif

Package

Name
libexif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libexif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.6.21-2.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git

github.com/libexif/exif

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexif/exif
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
faee2711aed6a1a2046d5f0fd89c1c894cd73400
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexif/libexif
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9ab318d93b274df204c195c9a729f778401a8d8f

Affected versions

Other

exif-0_6-release
exif-0_6_15-release
exif-0_6_17-release
exif-0_6_18-release
exif-0_6_19-release
exif-0_6_20-release
exif-0_6_21-release
exif-0_6_9-release
libexif-0_5_7-rc2
libexif-0_5_7-rc3
libexif-0_5_7-rc4
libexif-0_5_7-release
libexif-0_5_9-release
libexif-0_6_12-release
libexif-0_6_14-release
libexif-0_6_15-release
libexif-0_6_16-release
libexif-0_6_17-release
libexif-0_6_18-release
libexif-0_6_19-release
libexif-0_6_20-release
libexif-0_6_21-release
libexif-before-0_6_0-api-change