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CVE-2019-9640

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7.1.27, 7.2.x before 7.2.16, and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. There is an Invalid Read in exif_process_SOFn.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• NetApp Storage Automation Store: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 42.3
• PHP: from 7.1.0 before 7.1.27; from 7.2.0 before 7.2.16; from 7.3.0 before 7.3.3 — fixed in 7.1.27, 7.2.16, 7.3.3
• RedHat Software Collections: 1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 7.1.27, 7.2.16, 7.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00104.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00044.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3299
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77540
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00043.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0007/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-3/

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