CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9239
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-26
- 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-369
Description
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.
Affected configurations
• exiv2 exiv2 0.26
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-369 Divide By Zero weakness
References
- http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1295 Issue Tracking
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/lolo-pop/poc/tree/master/Segmentation%20fault%20in%20convert-test%28exiv2%29 github.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1295 Issue Tracking
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98720 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/lolo-pop/poc/tree/master/Segmentation%20fault%20in%20convert-test%28exiv2%29 github.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/ Third Party Advisory