CVE-2017-18234

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-03-15

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Exempi (Exempi Project)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100397
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=c26d5beb60a5a85f76259f50ed3e08c8169b0a0c
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/