Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-29458  

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 triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as insert. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4.

Severity Low

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

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 triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as insert.

The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4.

AVG-1772 exiv2 0.27.3-1 Medium Vulnerable

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-57jj-75fm-9rq5
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/1530
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1536
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1539
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/9b7a19f957af53304655ed1efe32253a1b11a8d0