CVE-2017-11591 Affecting libexiv2-devel package, versions <0.26-150000.6.26.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBEXIV2DEVEL-3151212
  • published1 Dec 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2022

Introduced: 29 Nov 2022

CVE-2017-11591  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libexiv2-devel to version 0.26-150000.6.26.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexiv2-devel package and not the libexiv2-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

CVSS Scores

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