CVE-2017-18234 — Use After Free in Project Exempi

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 29.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Exempi Project ExempiCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedMar 15
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memcpy with resultant use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a .pdf file containing JPEG data, related to XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ReconcileTIFF.cpp, XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_MemoryReader.cpp, and XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/TIFF_Support.hpp.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianexempi_project/exempi< 2.4.3-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10

Patches

Patch: cgit.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: cgit.freedesktop.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-2pcx-jpw3-x254: An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-18234: An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2↗2018-03-15
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CVEList
CVE-2017-18234: An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2↗2018-03-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Exempi vulnerabilities↗2018-06-04
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Red Hat
exempi: Use after free via a PDF file containing JPEG data↗2017-03-25
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Debian
CVE-2017-18234: exempi - An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.3. It allows remote attackers to ca...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18233 CVE-2017-18234 CVE-2017-18235 CVE-2017-18236 CVE-2017-18237 exempi: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-03-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18234 exempi: Use after free via a PDF file containing JPEG data↗2018-03-22
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