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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 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
exiv2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic
Released (0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2)
cosmic
Released (0.25-4ubuntu0.1)
trusty
Released (0.23-1ubuntu2.2)
upstream Needs triage

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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H