CVE-2019-9278

Published: 27 September 2019

In libexif, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in the media content provider with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation. Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-112537774

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 8.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
libexif Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (0.6.21-4ubuntu0.1)
	disco	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	eoan	Released (0.6.21-5.1ubuntu0.1)
	precise	Released (0.6.20-2ubuntu0.2)
	trusty	Released (0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm1)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (0.6.21-2ubuntu0.1)
	Patches: vendor: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libexif/+/a5e8e5812a11ec9686294de8a5d68aaf2ab72475 upstream: https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/75aa73267fdb1e0ebfbc00369e7312bac43d0566

References

Bugs

https://github.com/libexif/libexif/issues/26

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