CVE-2017-18234

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100397Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=c26d5beb60a5a85f76259f50ed3e08c8169b0a0cPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100397Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=c26d5beb60a5a85f76259f50ed3e08c8169b0a0cPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Mar 15, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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