# CVE-2019-11040: Heap buffer overflow in EXIF extension

- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-06-18 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- PHP Group PHP: 7.1.30, 7.2.19, 7.3.6

## Description

When PHP EXIF extension is parsing EXIF information from an image, e.g. via exif_read_data() function, in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.30, 7.2.x below 7.2.19 and 7.3.x below 7.3.6 it is possible to supply it with data what will cause it to read past the allocated buffer. This may lead to information disclosure or crash.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on PHP, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [PHP](https://cve.now/tech/php.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77988
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00029.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/35
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4527
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4529
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/38
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3299

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