CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17724
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In Exiv2 0.26, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::IptcData::printStructure function in iptc.cpp, related to the "!= 0x1c" case. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted TIFF file.
Affected configurations
• exiv2 exiv2 0.26
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524107 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/263 github.com
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/exiv2/readme.md github.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14 security.gentoo.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524107 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/263 github.com
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/exiv2/readme.md github.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14 security.gentoo.org