CVEs-PoC/2018/CVE-2018-5772.md

### [CVE-2018-5772](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5772)
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### Description

In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/216

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