CVE-2017-17669 (GCVE-0-2017-17669)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-13 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:59
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk function of pngchunk_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted PNG file will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
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