CVE-2025-54080

Description

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.28.5 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.

Why is this CVE low priority?

This is just an out of bounds read when writing metadata to a bad file

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	25.10 questing	Fixed 0.28.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.27.5-3ubuntu1.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.27.2-8ubuntu2.7+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.7+esm5

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
exiv2	Upstream: f02c970 Upstream: f2345de

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8103-1
Exiv2 vulnerabilities
18 March 2026