Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-29473  

An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. 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. 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-7569-phvm-vwc2
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1587
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/e6a0982f7cd9282052b6e3485a458d60629ffa0b