CVE-2017-14859

MEDIUM

exiv2 0.26 - Denial of Service via Invalid Memory Address Dereference in StringValueBase

Title source: llm

Description

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494780

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0107

EPSS Percentile 60.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (6)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10

debian/debian_linux 10.0

exiv2/exiv2 0.26

Published Sep 29, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026