Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9953 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
There is an invalid free in Image::printIFDStructure that leads to a Segmentation fault in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | Fedora Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | FEDORA_2018-8B67A5C7E2.NASL |
| description | Exiv2 update with security fixes. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
| last seen | 2020-06-05 |
| modified | 2019-01-03 |
| plugin id | 120594 |
| published | 2019-01-03 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120594 |
| title | Fedora 28 : exiv2 (2018-8b67a5c7e2) |