exiv2: CVE-2017-12955

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-12955  

Debian Bug report logs - #888873
exiv2: CVE-2017-12955

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:42:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream

Found in version exiv2/0.26-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/58

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Bug#888873; Package src:exiv2. (Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:42:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: exiv2: CVE-2017-12955
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:37:42 +0100
Source: exiv2
Version: 0.26-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/58

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for exiv2, only affecting
experimental version.

CVE-2017-12955[0]:
| There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The
| vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in
| Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of
| service or possibly unspecified other impact.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12955
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12955
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/58

Regards,
Salvatore



Added tag(s) fixed-upstream. Request was from bts-link-upstream@lists.alioth.debian.org to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:09:12 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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