CVE-2005-4676 (GCVE-0-2005-4676)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-01-31 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:53
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2005-12-09 00:00
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