Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2017-11592

Published: 24 July 2017

There is a Mismatched Memory Management Routines vulnerability in the Exiv2::FileIo::seek function of Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack (heap memory corruption) via crafted input.

Notes

AuthorNote
debian
printTiffStructure introduced in 0.26

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
exiv2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/120

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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H