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CVE-2020-13113

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-908

Description

An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. Use of uninitialized memory in EXIF Makernote handling could lead to crashes and potential use-after-free conditions.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• libexif project libexif: before 0.6.22 — fixed in 0.6.22
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libexif project libexif 0.6.22. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
• https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/ec412aa4583ad71ecabb967d3c77162760169d1f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4396-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
• https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/ec412aa4583ad71ecabb967d3c77162760169d1f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4396-1/

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