CVE-2021-27815

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

NULL Pointer Deference in the exif command line tool, when printing out XML formatted EXIF data, in exif v0.6.22 and earlier allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by uploading a malicious JPEG file, causing the application to crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-27815

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27815.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.6.22-3
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed0.6.22-3
debian debiansidfixed0.6.22-3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.6.22-3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.