Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exiv2  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1710-EXIV2-617436
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed29 Sept 2017

Introduced: 29 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14860  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

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

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Jp2Image::readMetadata function of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.