NIKON exiftags 1.01 nikon.c nikon_prop1 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in NIKON exiftags 1.01. It has been classified as critical. The affected element is the function nikon_prop1 of the file nikon.c. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2023-50671. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in NIKON exiftags 1.01 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function nikon_prop1 of the file nikon.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In exiftags 1.01, nikon_prop1 in nikon.c has a heap-based buffer overflow (write of size 28) because snprintf can write to an unexpected address.

The weakness was published 01/11/2024. The advisory is shared at blog.yulun.ac.cn. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-50671 since 12/11/2023. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• NIKON

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• exiftags

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• 1.01

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