CVE-2008-2696

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Exiv2 0.16 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash) via a zero value in Nikon lens information in the metadata of an image, related to "pretty printing" and the RationalValue::toLong function.

Affected products

exiv2: 0.16

References

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524715
http://dev.robotbattle.com/bugs/view.php?id=0000546
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30519
http://secunia.com/advisories/32273
http://www.exiv2.org/changelog.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:119
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29586
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-655-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1766/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42885
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524715

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