# CVE-2018-7730: An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-03-06 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. A certain case of a 0xffffffff length is mishandled in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/PSIR_FileWriter.cpp, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the PSD_MetaHandler::CacheFileData() function.

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## References

- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=6cbd34025e5fd3ba47b29b602096e456507ce83b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105204
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCFXKOOATZ2B5G3G7EBXZWVZHEABN4ZV/

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