PT-2018-17137

CVE-2018-5772

Published

2018-01-18

Updated

2022-10-17

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Exiv2 version 0.26

Description: The issue is caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function, located in the image.cpp file. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service using a crafted tif file.

Recommendations: For Exiv2 version 0.26, consider disabling the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function until a patch is available to prevent potential denial of service attacks via crafted tif files.

Exploitability

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Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Related identifiers

CVE-2018-5772