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Exiv2 upstream\ncreated a patch to resolve this problem (bugfix - applies only to mga6).\n\nThe following security issues were also fixed:\n*Heap overflow in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure (CVE-2017-11336)\n*Invalid free in the Action::TaskFactory::cleanup function\n(CVE-2017-11337)\n*Infinite loop in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function of\nimage.cpp (CVE-2017-11338)\n*Heap-based buffer overflow in the Image::printIFDStructure function of\nimage.cpp (CVE-2017-11339)\n*Segmentation fault in the XmpParser::terminate() function\n(CVE-2017-11340)\n*Illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in\nlocalealias.c (CVE-2017-11553)\n*Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function\n(CVE-2017-11591)\n*Alloc-dealloc-mismatch in Exiv2::FileIo::seek (CVE-2017-11592)\n*Reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitDirectory\nfunction in tiffvisitor.cpp (CVE-2017-11683)\n*Heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp (CVE-2017-12955)\n*Illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]() in\nbasicio.cpp (CVE-2017-12956)\n*Heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Image::io function in\nimage.cpp (CVE-2017-12957)\n*Bad free in Exiv2::Image::~Image (CVE-2017-14857)\n*Invalid memory address dereference in Exiv2::DataValue::read\n(CVE-2017-14859)\n*Heap-buffer-overflow in Exiv2::Jp2Image::readMetadata (CVE-2017-14860)\n*Invalid memory address dereference in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read\n(CVE-2017-14862)\n*Invalid memory address dereference in Exiv2::getULong (CVE-2017-14864)\n","status":"published","published":"2017-10-30T19:23:17Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:23:50.438945749Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:40.442238Z"}]}}