| Name | CVE-2017-11592 |
| Description | 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. |
| 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) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 895568 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| exiv2 (PTS) | jessie | 0.24-4.1 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 0.24-4.1+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| bullseye, sid, buster | 0.25-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| exiv2 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| exiv2 | source | experimental | (unfixed) | | | 895568 |
Notes
- exiv2 <not-affected> (printTiffStructure introduced in 0.26)
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/56
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473889
Not reproducible in wheezy/jessie/stretch/sid(0.25-3.1).
Reproducible in experimental with version 0.26-1.