CVE-2017-14861

MEDIUM

exiv2 - Denial of Service via Stack Consumption in stringFormat Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the Exiv2::Internal::stringFormat function of image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494787

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0096
EPSS Percentile 56.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-674
Status published
Products (1)
exiv2/exiv2 0.26
Published Sep 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026