CVE-2005-4676

published 2005-12-31

CVE-2005-4676: Buffer overflow in Andreas Huggel Exiv2 before 0.9 does not null terminate strings before calling the sscanf function, which allows remote attackers to cause a…

Priority P4 21 medium 5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C N I N A P

EXPLOIT

Buffer overflow in Andreas Huggel Exiv2 before 0.9 does not null terminate strings before calling the sscanf function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via images with crafted IPTC metadata.

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
andreas_huggel	exiv2	—	—
debian	exiv2	< exiv2 0.9 (bookworm)	exiv2 0.9 (bookworm)
exiv2	exiv2	>= 0 < 0.9	0.9
exiv2	exiv2	>= 0 < 0.9	0.9
exiv2	exiv2	>= 0 < 0.9	0.9
exiv2	exiv2	>= 0 < 0.9	0.9

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.0 MEDIUM

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