Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-29623  

A read of uninitialized memory was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The read of uninitialized memory is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to leak a few bytes of stack memory, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

A read of uninitialized memory was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The read of uninitialized memory is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to leak a few bytes of stack memory, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. 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-6253-qjwm-3q4v
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1627
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/0f9eb74c44c908e170a64cab590949d53749af8e