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CVE-2017-9239 (GCVE-0-2017-9239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-26 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:02
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1295 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98720 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/lolo-pop/poc/tree/master/Segme… x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2017-05-26 00:00
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