CVE-2005-4676

Exiv2 vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

4.1%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Andreas Huggel Exiv2 before 0.9 does not null terminate strings before calling the sscanf function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via images with crafted IPTC metadata.

Affected vendor

Andreas Huggel

Affected product

Exiv2

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2005-12-31

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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