CVE-2017-12956

MEDIUM

exiv2 0.26 - Denial of Service via Illegal Address Access in FileIo Path Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]() in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to remote denial of service.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482296

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0142
EPSS Percentile 69.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (1)
exiv2/exiv2 0.26
Published Aug 18, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026