CVE-2017-9239

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Published 2017-05-26 · Modified 2025-10-09

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
18.10	Affected	—
18.04	Affected	—
16.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.25-3.1`
sid	Fixed	`0.25-3.1`
forky	Fixed	`0.25-3.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.25-3.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.25-3.1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	exiv2

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
exiv2	exiv2	`0.26`

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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