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CVE-2018-10999

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. The Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk function has a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/306
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3700-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4238
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/306
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3700-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4238

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