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CVE-2018-9145

• 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: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In the DataBuf class in include/exiv2/types.hpp in Exiv2 0.26, an issue exists in the constructor with an initial buffer size. A large size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to reproduce the SIGABRT when using the 4-DataBuf-abort-1 PoC file.

Affected products

• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087879
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564281
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/exiv2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087879
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1564281
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/exiv2
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14

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