CVE-2018-7729

Publication date 6 March 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the PostScript_MetaHandler::ParsePSFile() function in XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/PostScript_Handler.cpp.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exempi	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.4.3-1ubuntu1.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

code snippet is not in trusty and xenial

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
exempi	Upstream: ?id=baa

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H