CVE-2017-9239

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-369

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
exiv2: 0.26

References

http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1295
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98720
https://github.com/lolo-pop/poc/tree/master/Segmentation%20fault%20in%20convert-test%28exiv2%29
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1295
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98720
https://github.com/lolo-pop/poc/tree/master/Segmentation%20fault%20in%20convert-test%28exiv2%29
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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