CVE-2017-17669
First published: Wed Dec 13 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| ubuntu/exiv2 | <0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2 | 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2 |
| ubuntu/exiv2 | <0.25-4ubuntu0.1 | 0.25-4ubuntu0.1 |
| ubuntu/exiv2 | <0.23-1ubuntu2.2 | 0.23-1ubuntu2.2 |
| ubuntu/exiv2 | <0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3 | 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3 |
| debian/exiv2 | 0.27.3-3+deb11u2 0.27.3-3+deb11u1 0.27.6-1 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/187
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2017-17669
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17669
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3852-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17669
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17669
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/06aa7ab69d0c4f3d14644bd84fc9d1346154430d
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17669
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/launchpad-cve
- source/Launchpad
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/softwarecombine
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- source/Debian
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- collector/nvd-cve
- source/NVD
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/remedy
- agent/tags
- agent/event
- agent/description
- collector/usn-cve
- source/Ubuntu
- vendor/exiv2
- canonical/exiv2 exiv2
- version/exiv2 exiv2/0.26
- vendor/canonical
- canonical/canonical ubuntu linux
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/14.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/16.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/18.04
- version/canonical ubuntu linux/18.10
- vendor/debian
- canonical/debian debian linux
- version/debian debian linux/10.0
- package-manager/debian
- package-manager/ubuntu