vulnerability
Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-37616): Exiv2 vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 9, 2021 | Aug 18, 2021 | Jan 23, 2025 |
Description
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A null pointer dereference was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.4 and earlier. The null pointer dereference is triggered when Exiv2 is used to print the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when printing the interpreted (translated) data, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation that requires an extra command line option (`-p t` or `-P t`). The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.
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