[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#888869: exiv2: CVE-2017-14857

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Tue Jan 30 19:32:20 UTC 2018


Source: exiv2
Version: 0.26-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/76

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for exiv2, only affecting
the experimental version.

CVE-2017-14857[0]:
| In Exiv2 0.26, there is an invalid free in the Image class in image.cpp
| that leads to a Segmentation fault. A crafted input will lead to a
| denial of service attack.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14857
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14857
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/76

Regards,
Salvatore



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