5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-17669

Published: 13/12/2017 Updated: 13/01/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2017-9239 only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-11591, CVE-2017-11683, CVE-2017-14859, CVE-2017-14862, CVE-2017-14864, CVE-2017-17669, CVE-2017-9239, CVE-2018-16336, CVE-2018-1758)

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exiv2 exiv2 0.26

canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

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canonical ubuntu linux 18.04

canonical ubuntu linux 18.10

debian debian linux 10.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #886006 exiv2: CVE-2017-17669: heap-buffer-overflow in Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk Package: src:exiv2; Maintainer for src:exiv2 is Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 14:03:02 U ...
Several security issues were fixed in Exiv2 ...
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk function of pngchunk_intcpp in Exiv2 026 A crafted PNG file will lead to a remote denial of service attack ...