PT-2005-5341 · Exiv2 · Exiv2

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2005-4676

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Exiv2 versions prior to 0.9

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow that occurs when processing images with crafted IPTC metadata. This happens because strings are not null terminated before being passed to the sscanf function, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9, update to version 0.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4676

Affected Products

Exiv2

References · 11

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/16400 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/27140 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4676 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4676 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18619 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-4676 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4676 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0345 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24349 · Note
• http://dev.robotbattle.com/mantis/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=447 · Note
• http://home.arcor.de/ahuggel/exiv2/changelog.html · Note