CVE-2017-17725: EXIV2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Exiv2 0.26, there is an integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::getULong function in types.cpp. Remote attackers can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file. Note that this vulnerability is different from CVE-2017-14864, which is an invalid memory address dereference.

Affected products

• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

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