CVE-2017-9239

medium
Published 2017-05-26 · Modified 2025-10-09
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9239

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9239.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.25-3.1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.25-3.1
debian debianforkyfixed0.25-3.1
debian debiansidfixed0.25-3.1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.25-3.1
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.10affected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIexiv2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
exiv2exiv20.26

References

CWEs

CWE-369

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.