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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-19107

In Exiv2 0.26, Exiv2::IptcParser::decode in iptc.cpp (called from psdimage.cpp in the PSD image reader) may suffer from a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) caused by an integer overflow via a crafted PSD image file.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:17 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-19107

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Nov 2018, 08:29 UTC

In Exiv2 0.26, Exiv2::IptcParser::decode in iptc.cpp (called from psdimage.cpp in the PSD image reader) may suffer from a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) caused by an integer overflow via a crafted PSD image file.

osv:CVE-2018-19107
Complete source record
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