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GLSA-202210-28 : exif: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 166713

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202210-28 (exif: Denial of Service)

 - NULL Pointer Deference in the exif command line tool, when printing out XML formatted EXIF data, in exif v0.6.22 and earlier allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a malicious JPEG file, causing the application to crash. (CVE-2021-27815)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All exif users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-gfx/exif-0.6.22

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-28

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783522

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 166713

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202210-28.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 10/31/2022

Updated: 10/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-27815

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:exif, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-27815