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CVE-2008-2696
Exiv2 0.16 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash) via a zero value in…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Exiv2 0.16 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash) via a zero value in Nikon lens information in the metadata of an image, related to "pretty printing" and the RationalValue::toLong function.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- http://www.exiv2.org/changelog.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:119 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- USN-655-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 29586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- exiv2-printing-dos(42885) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:023 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://dev.robotbattle.com/bugs/view.php?id=0000546 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524715 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30519 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1766 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32273 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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