CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17669

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk function of pngchunk_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted PNG file will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected configurations

• exiv2 exiv2 0.26 • 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References