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.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exif | Libexif_project | * | 0.6.22 (including) |
| Exif | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | esm-apps/jammy | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | esm-apps/noble | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | hirsute | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Exif | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/commit/eb84b0e3c5f2a86013b6fcfb800d187896a648fa
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/commit/f6334d9d32437ef13dc902f0a88a2be0063d9d1c
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/issues/4
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSWAXZVNXYLV3E4R6YQTEGRGMGWEAR76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QMC6OTXZRPCUD3LOSWO4ISR7CH7NJQDT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZQ3L45F7S7PQPG5HEHXOCGNOO64MJOS/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-28
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/commit/eb84b0e3c5f2a86013b6fcfb800d187896a648fa
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/commit/f6334d9d32437ef13dc902f0a88a2be0063d9d1c
- https://github.com/libexif/exif/issues/4
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JSWAXZVNXYLV3E4R6YQTEGRGMGWEAR76/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QMC6OTXZRPCUD3LOSWO4ISR7CH7NJQDT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZQ3L45F7S7PQPG5HEHXOCGNOO64MJOS/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-28