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
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-11591
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1473888 1475370
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-27 08:48 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-27 09:26:29 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 08:48:28 UTC 
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 08:50:17 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
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