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CVE-2017-17722

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is a reachable assertion in the readHeader function in bigtiffimage.cpp, which will lead to a remote denial of service attack via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524116
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524116

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