Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-17402
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:37 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2019-17402
Complete source record
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