Name: CVE-2017-11592: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-07-24T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-11592, CWE-119, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.01065

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Jul 22, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade exiv2Upgrade exiv2-langUpgrade libexiv2-docUpgrade libexiv2-26-32bitUpgrade libexiv2-26Upgrade libexiv2-devel	Jul 17, 2018	Jul 23, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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