CVE-2019-9278

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

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

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
Android: 10.0
openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/25/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/27/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/07/1
https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/75aa73267fdb1e0ebfbc00369e7312bac43d0566
https://github.com/libexif/libexif/issues/26
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00007.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MO2VTHD7OLPJDCJBHKUQTBAHZOBBCF6X/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VA5BPQLOFXIZOOJHBYDU635Z5KLUMTDD/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/9
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05

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