CVE-2018-10999: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. The Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk function has a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2018-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.