vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-84a77710-8958-11f0-b6e5-4ccc6adda413 (CVE-2025-54080): exiv2 -- Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::EpsImage::writeMetadata()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 4, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
Kevin Backhouse reports: An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions v0.28.5 and earlier. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as delete.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-exiv2
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