Bug 1475729 – CVE-2017-11591 exiv2: Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function

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Bug 1475729 - (CVE-2017-11591) CVE-2017-11591 exiv2: Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function

Summary:	CVE-2017-11591 exiv2: Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-11591

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

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Depends On:	1473888 1475370
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Reported:	2017-07-27 04:48 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-07-27 05:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 04:48:28 EDT

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

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 04:50:17 EDT

Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]

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