Bug 1500310 (CVE-2017-14866)

Summary: CVE-2017-14866 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Exiv2::s2Data function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:27:42 UTC
There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the Exiv2::s2Data function of types.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494781

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:29:09 UTC
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]