Bug 1475754 (CVE-2017-11683) - CVE-2017-11683 exiv2: Reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitDirectory function
Summary: CVE-2017-11683 exiv2: Reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitD...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-11683
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: 1475124 1475370
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-27 09:24 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-27 09:26:11 UTC
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Triggered by "./exiv2 $POC" (362 bytes, application/x-rar)
2017-07-27 13:50 UTC, owl337 		no flags Details
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 09:24:45 UTC 
There is a reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitDirectory function in tiffvisitor.cpp of 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=1475124
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-27 09:25:29 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
Comment 2 owl337 2017-07-27 13:50:36 UTC 
Created attachment 1305393 [details]
Triggered by  "./exiv2 $POC"
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