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CVE-2018-7728

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/TIFF_Handler.cpp mishandles a case of a zero length, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the MD5Update() function in third-party/zuid/interfaces/MD5.cpp.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Exempi Project Exempi: through 2.4.4

References

• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105205
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=e163667a06a9b656a047b0ec660b871f29a83c9f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCFXKOOATZ2B5G3G7EBXZWVZHEABN4ZV/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105205
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=e163667a06a9b656a047b0ec660b871f29a83c9f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00013.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCFXKOOATZ2B5G3G7EBXZWVZHEABN4ZV/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/

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