Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exiv2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-EXIV2-600302
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed18 Aug 2017

Introduced: 18 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exiv2 package and not the exiv2 package as distributed by Debian.

There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::pathabi:cxx11 in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to remote denial of service.