CVE-2017-17722: EXIV2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Exiv2 0.26, there is a reachable assertion in the readHeader function in bigtiffimage.cpp, which will lead to a remote denial of service attack via a crafted TIFF file.

Affected products

• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2018-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.