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CVE-2017-12955

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295

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