CVE-2018-5772

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    CVE-2018-5772

    Published: 18 Jan 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.26

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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