CVE-2018-11531: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Exiv2 0.26 has a heap-based buffer overflow in getData in preview.cpp.

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 2018-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.