CVE-2018-8976: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Exiv2 0.26, jpgimage.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (image.cpp Exiv2::Internal::stringFormat out-of-bounds read) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.