vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-9239: exiv2 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 26, 2017
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

Solution

debian-upgrade-exiv2
Title
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