CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-12955.md

CVE-2017-12955

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example