CVE-2017-11592

Publication date 24 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

There is a Mismatched Memory Management Routines vulnerability in the Exiv2::FileIo::seek function of Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack (heap memory corruption) via crafted input.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

debian

printTiffStructure introduced in 0.26

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
exiv2	Upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/120

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11592