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CVE-2018-5772

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.26

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102789
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/216
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102789
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/216
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14

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