| Name | CVE-2017-17722 |
| Description | In Exiv2 0.26, there is a reachable assertion in the readHeader function in bigtiffimage.cpp, which will lead to a remote denial of service attack via a crafted TIFF file. |
| 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 (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 891044 |
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+deb8u2 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 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) | low | 891044 |
- exiv2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 0.26)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524116
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/208
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/228 (duplicate)
https://github.com/Kicer86/exiv2/commit/1647908e00a4df7246d76678e59587e62c690dcd