Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9953 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
exiv2
redhat
CWE-416
nessus

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
Exiv2
1
OS
Redhat
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2018-8B67A5C7E2.NASL
descriptionExiv2 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 seen2020-06-05
modified2019-01-03
plugin id120594
published2019-01-03
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120594
titleFedora 28 : exiv2 (2018-8b67a5c7e2)