CVE-2017-11591 in Ubuntu

CVE-2017-11591

Priority

Description

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.

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11591
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3852-1

Bugs

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/55
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876893

Assigned-to

leosilva

Notes

mdeslaur

can reproduce on at least xenial and bionic

Package

Source: exiv2 (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	needs-triage
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:	released (0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2)
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:	released (0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3)
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:	DNE (trusty was released [0.23-1ubuntu2.2])

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)

More Information

Updated: 2022-04-13 12:52:55 UTC (commit f411bd370d482ef4385c4e751d121a4055fbc009)