cve-2026-14454
CRITICAL CVSS 9.8 cvelistv5
Description
Imager versions before 1.033 for Perl treat unsigned EXIF IFD entry counts as signed. Imager mishandled large EXIF IFD entry count values, treating them as negative numbers. This could lead to an attempt to allocate a block nearly the size of the address space, which fails and kills the process. An attacker could craft an image with EXIF data that terminates a worker process.
Timeline
- Published
- 2026-07-08 12:30 UTC
- Last Modified
- 2026-07-09
CVSS Details
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Attack Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges Required
- NONE
Affected Products
- TONYC Imager
SSVC (CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization)
CISA Coordinator
v2.0.3
- Exploitation
none- Automatable
yes- Technical Impact
total- Decision timestamp
2026-07-09T13:50:57.514385Z
What is SSVC? — CISA's vulnerability-prioritisation framework using a decision tree rather than a single score.
References
Linked Vulnerabilities
No linked vulnerabilities found.
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