CVE-2017-7544

9.1 criticalEPSS 3.3%

Critical (9.1) in libexif project libexif. EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.1 critical

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-09-21
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libexif_project:libexif

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
https://sourceforge.net/p/libexif/bugs/130/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4277-1/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html

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