PYSEC-2019-249

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Import Source

https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/exiv2/PYSEC-2019-249.yaml

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2019-249

Withdrawn

2024-11-22T04:37:04Z

Published

2019-02-25T15:29:00Z

Modified

2025-10-09T07:05:09.758700Z

Severity

8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at BigTiffImage::printIFD in the file bigtiffimage.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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-2019-249.yaml"