CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17725

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-02-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-190

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is an integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::getULong function in types.cpp. Remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file. Note that this vulnerability is different from CVE-2017-14864, which is an invalid memory address dereference.

Affected configurations

• exiv2 exiv2 0.26

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References