CVE-2018-7728: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Exempi through 2.4.4. XMPFiles/source/FileHandlers/TIFF_Handler.cpp mishandles a case of a zero length, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the MD5Update() function in third-party/zuid/interfaces/MD5.cpp.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Exempi Project Exempi: up to and including 2.4.4

Published 2018-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.