Out-of-Bounds Affecting exiv2/exiv2 package, versions [,0.26]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIV2EXIV2-2367040
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14860  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for exiv2/exiv2.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Scores

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