CVE-2017-11591

HIGH

exiv2 0.26 - Denial of Service via Floating Point Exception in ValueType Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0310
EPSS Percentile 86.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
debian/debian_linux 10.0
exiv2/exiv2 0.26
Published Jul 24, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026