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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-14857

A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.80%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.80%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is an invalid free in the Image class in image.cpp that leads to a Segmentation fault. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

CVSS 3.0
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.80% probability · 55th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-416
Affected
exiv2/exiv2
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.