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CVE-2019-17402

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2019-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 10.0
• exiv2: 0.27.2

References

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1019
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4159-1/
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1019
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00001.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4159-1/

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