VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-12957
It will lead to remote denial of service.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.42%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that is triggered in the Exiv2::Image::io function in image.cpp. It will lead to remote denial of service.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.42% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-125
- Affected
- exiv2/exiv2
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482423Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482423Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.