PT-2019-20120
Published
2019-02-25
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Updated
2019-02-25
Description by
CVSS 3.1
8.8
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Exiv2 version 0.27
Description
An issue in Exiv2 allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service or possibly have other unspecified impact by triggering infinite recursion with a crafted file. This recursion occurs at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.cpp.
Recommendations
For Exiv2 version 0.27, consider avoiding the use of crafted files that may trigger the infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
Exploitability
Fix
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