Out-of-Bounds Affecting exiv2/exiv2 package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIV2EXIV2-2367072
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Jan 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5772  (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. In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file.

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