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CVE-2018-7729

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% 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. There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the PostScript_MetaHandler::ParsePSFile() function in XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/PostScript_Handler.cpp.

Affected products

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

References

• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105206
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=baa4b8a02c1ffab9645d13f0bfb1c0d10d311a0c
• 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=105206
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=baa4b8a02c1ffab9645d13f0bfb1c0d10d311a0c
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BCFXKOOATZ2B5G3G7EBXZWVZHEABN4ZV/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3668-1/

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