CVE-2019-17402: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 10.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.27.2 only

Published 2019-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.