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CVE-2017-11591

Published: 23 July 2017

There is a Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
can reproduce on at least xenial and bionic

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

Package Release Status
exiv2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
bionic
Released (0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic
Released (0.25-4ubuntu0.1)
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [0.23-1ubuntu2.2])
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3)
yakkety Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
zesty Ignored
(reached end-of-life)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/773e29bfccc66d6e08a6d94fa48b4a8b0996ead9 (0.26)
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/73a4cdb263ce80360dab627bc9425e319d8c9267 (0.26)
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/c037d7377bc7bd63acc3f240101ff44002d19027 (0.26)
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/7f5b0778fa301b68c1c88e3820ec3afbd09dd0a5 (0.26)