Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2 - CVE-2017-14860

 

Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2 - CVE-2017-14860

Published: September 29, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38180
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14860
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Jp2Image::readMetadata function of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Exiv2

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14860

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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