CVE-2017-12955: EXIV2

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2017-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.