vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4159-1 (CVE-2019-17402): Exiv2 vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 9, 2019
Added
Oct 22, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-exiv2ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-14
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