Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exiv2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-EXIV2-600300
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed24 Jul 2017

Introduced: 24 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11592  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exiv2 package and not the exiv2 package as distributed by Debian.

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.