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Bug #447

Buffer overflow in sscanf

Added by Andreas Huggel almost 16 years ago. Updated almost 13 years ago.

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Normal
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miscellaneous
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Description

sscanf expects a 0 terminated C-string to read from. In exiv2 the function is in some places called with a data buffer (not 0 terminated) instead. This causes a buffer overflow and may crash the application.

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