CVE-2018-12265: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Exiv2 0.26 has an integer overflow in the LoaderExifJpeg class in preview.cpp, leading to an out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::MemIo::read in basicio.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 2018-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.