CVE-2021-29463 — Out-of-bounds Read in Exiv2
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 72.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 30
Latest updateMay 25
Description
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only tr…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages7 packages
Also affects: Fedora 33, 34
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
4Debian▶
CVE-2021-29463: exiv2 - Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, ...↗2021