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SUSE: CVE-2017-12956: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12956: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/17/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

Description

There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]() in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to remote denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-exiv2
  • suse-upgrade-exiv2-lang
  • suse-upgrade-libexiv2-26
  • suse-upgrade-libexiv2-26-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libexiv2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libexiv2-doc

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:1882-1
  • CVE-2017-12956

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