Bug 1487207 (CVE-2017-12955)

Summary: CVE-2017-12955 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:39:28 UTC
There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:43:27 UTC
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]