PYSEC-2017-140

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Import Source

https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/exiv2/PYSEC-2017-140.yaml

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2017-140

Withdrawn

2024-11-22T04:37:04Z

Published

2017-12-13T22:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-09T05:27:42.426927Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk function of pngchunk_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted PNG file will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

Affected packages

PyPI / exiv2

Package

Name: exiv2; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/exiv2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.3.1

0.11.0

0.11.1

0.11.2

0.11.3

0.12.0

0.12.1

0.13.0

0.13.1

0.13.2

0.14.0

0.14.1

0.15.0

0.16.0

0.16.1

0.16.2

0.16.2.post1

0.16.3

0.16.3.post1

0.17.0

0.17.1

0.17.2

0.17.3

0.17.4

0.17.5

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/exiv2/PYSEC-2017-140.yaml"