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CVE-2017-14859

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494780
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494780
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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