CVE-2019-17402

MEDIUM

Exiv2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4159-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00001.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1019

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 49.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-120
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
exiv2/exiv2 0.27.2
Published Oct 09, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026