CVE-2017-9239: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. When the data structure of the structure ifd is incorrect, the program assigns pValue_ to 0x0, and the value of pValue() is 0x0. TiffImageEntry::doWriteImage will use the value of pValue() to cause a segmentation fault. To exploit this vulnerability, someone must open a crafted tiff file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2017-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.