exiftags 1.01 paresetag buffer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in exiftags 1.01 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function paresetag. Such manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-42851. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in exiftags 1.01 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function paresetag. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in open source exiftags v.1.01 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the paresetag function.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-42851 since 08/05/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are known technical details, 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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• exiftags

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• 1.01

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