CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-14863

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 29, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

3.3 LOW

Ubuntu

LOW

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14863
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure in image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Exiv2	Exiv2	0.26 (including)	0.26 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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