Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exiv2  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1710-EXIV2-617069
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed12 Feb 2018

Introduced: 12 Feb 2018

CVE-2017-17722  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

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

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.