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CVE-2018-9145
medium
Description
In the DataBuf class in include/exiv2/types.hpp in Exiv2 0.26, an issue exists in the constructor with an initial buffer size. A large size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to reproduce the SIGABRT when using the 4-DataBuf-abort-1 PoC file.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/exiv2