CVE-2017-17725

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is an integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::getULong function in types.cpp. Remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file. Note that this vulnerability is different from CVE-2017-14864, which is an invalid memory address dereference.

Affected products

exiv2: 0.26

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525055
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/188
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525055
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/188

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