CVE-2021-37616
MEDIUMexiv2 < 0.27.4 - Denial of Service via Crafted Image Metadata
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMDT4PJB7P43WSOM3TRQIY3J33BAFVVE/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UYGDELIFFJWKUU7SO3QATCIXCZJERGAC/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-06
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1758
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-54f7-vvj7-545w
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
22.6%
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-476
Status
published
Products (3)
exiv2/exiv2
< 0.27.4
fedoraproject/fedora
33
fedoraproject/fedora
34
Published
Aug 09, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026