CVE-2014-9449

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the RiffVideo::infoTagsHandler function in riffvideo.cpp in Exiv2 0.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long IKEY INFO tag value in an AVI file.

Affected products

exiv2: 0.24
Fedoraproject Fedora: 21

References

http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/960
http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/repository/diff?rev=3264&rev_to=3263
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148382.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61801
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71912
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2454-1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-03
http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/960
http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/repository/diff?rev=3264&rev_to=3263
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148382.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61801
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71912

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