| Name | CVE-2017-11591 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1147-1, DLA-3265-1, ELA-766-1, ELA-767-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 876893 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| exiv2 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.24-4.1+deb8u7 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 0.25-3.1+deb9u3 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 0.25-3.1+deb9u4 | fixed | |
| buster | 0.25-4+deb10u2 | vulnerable | |
| buster (security) | 0.25-4+deb10u4 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 0.27.3-3+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 0.27.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| exiv2 | source | wheezy | 0.23-1+deb7u2 | DLA-1147-1 | ||
| exiv2 | source | jessie | 0.24-4.1+deb8u7 | ELA-767-1 | ||
| exiv2 | source | stretch | 0.25-3.1+deb9u4 | ELA-766-1 | ||
| exiv2 | source | buster | 0.25-4+deb10u4 | DLA-3265-1 | ||
| exiv2 | source | (unstable) | 0.27.2-6 | low | 876893 |
[stretch] - exiv2 <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - exiv2 <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/55
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888
Reproducible in wheezy/jessie/stretch/sid(0.25-3.1)/experimental(0.26-1).