Critical 9.8Published Jul 8, 2026

CVE-2026-14454Imager versions before 1.033 for Perl treat unsigned EXIF IFD entry counts as signed

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 12:10 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-196, CWE-789
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: CPANSec
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

TONYC Imager tonyc:imager (from the name)	before 1.033	CNA record
tonycoz imager tonycoz:imager	before 1.033	NVD

References

References

https://metacpan.org/release/TONYC/Imager-1.033/changes	release-notes
https://github.com/tonycoz/imager/commit/06f01a5d0fd591259aeba589370d6888384a6b6d.patch	patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/08/6	mailing-list, patch, third-party-advisory

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