Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. readMetadata in jp2image.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGABRT) by triggering an incorrect Safe::add call.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10998
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. readMetadata in jp2image.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGABRT) by triggering an incorrect Safe::add call.
osv:CVE-2018-10998
Complete source record
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