CVE-2019-17402 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Exiv2 versions 0.27.2 and various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. It allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (crash) in the Exiv2 library by crafting a malicious image file due to insufficient validation of size and offset relationships. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) to process the malicious file, but its impact is limited to availability (A:H) with no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.27.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.27.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVE-2019-17402
Jan 11, 2022Exiv2 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.
Oct 8, 2019exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check
Oct 6, 2019