vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-14859: exiv2 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 28, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Solution

debian-upgrade-exiv2
Title
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