Medium
Security advisory
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Jp2Image::readMetadata function of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 1 Nov 2026, 05:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Jp2Image::readMetadata function of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.
osv:CVE-2017-14860
Complete source record
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