CVE-2017-12957: EXIV2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that is triggered in the Exiv2::Image::io function in image.cpp. It will lead to remote denial of service.

Affected products

• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

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