Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-37620  

An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.27.4 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.27.4 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file.

AVG-2265 exiv2 0.27.4-2 Low Vulnerable

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-v5g7-46xf-h728
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1769
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/2e7bb581a234bfb0d0c9e16a1dbf037a8c30681e