Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37888

#VU37888 Buffer overflow in Exiv2 - CVE-2017-1000127

Published: November 17, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37888

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1000127

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Exiv2

Software vendor:
GNU

Description

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

Exiv2 0.26 contains a heap buffer overflow in tiff parser

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