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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-19082 EUVD-2026-54561

Imager versions from 0.45_02 before 1.034 for Perl may expose adjacent heap bytes via strlen() over-read from zero-count ASCII EXIF entries in copy_string_tags

Published Aug 7, 2026 · Updated Aug 7, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

Imager versions from 0.45_02 before 1.034 for Perl may expose adjacent heap bytes via strlen() over-read from zero-count ASCII EXIF entries in copy_string_tags.

copy_string_tags() computes an ASCII EXIF tag's length as `entry->size - 1` to strip the trailing NUL. A zero-count ASCII entry sets `entry->size` to 0, and the derived length reaches i_tags_add() as -1, which is interpreted as a request to call strlen(), scanning past the entry to the next NUL and copying those bytes into the tag. JPEG reaches this path via im_decode_exif(), as does the separate Imager::File::WEBP distribution, which is fixed by upgrading Imager.

Any caller of Imager->read() on an attacker-supplied image with such an entry may receive an exif_* tag holding adjacent heap bytes instead of an empty string.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
TONYC Imager 0.45_02 – < 1.034 1.034

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libimager-perl 1.034+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 libimager-perl No fix yet —
Debian 12 libimager-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libimager-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libimager-perl No fix yet —

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