Bug 1475368 – CVE-2017-11553 exiv2: illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function

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Bug 1475368 - (CVE-2017-11553) CVE-2017-11553 exiv2: illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function

Summary:	CVE-2017-11553 exiv2: illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-11553

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1475370
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Reported:	2017-07-26 09:59 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-07-27 05:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 09:59:03 EDT

There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function
in localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote
denial of service.

Bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471772

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-26 09:59:59 EDT

Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]

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