vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3852-1 (CVE-2017-11591): Exiv2 vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 23, 2017
Added
Jan 17, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

There is a Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-exiv2ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-12ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-14
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