CVE-2017-11591

Publication date 23 July 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.23-1ubuntu2.2

Notes

mdeslaur

can reproduce on at least xenial and bionic

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
exiv2	Upstream: 773e29b Upstream: 73a4cdb Upstream: c037d73 Upstream: 7f5b077

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
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