CVE-2018-9303

Publication date 4 April 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, an assertion failure in BigTiffImage::readData in bigtiffimage.cpp results in an abort.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exiv2 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


debian

Vulnerable code introduced after 0.26

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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