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CVE-2018-16336

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk in Exiv2 v0.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10999.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/400
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/400
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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