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CVE-2017-12957

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-125

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.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482423
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482423

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