Bug 1487208 (CVE-2017-12956) - CVE-2017-12956 exiv2: Illegal address access in in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]()
Summary: CVE-2017-12956 exiv2: Illegal address access in in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cx...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12956
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1475370
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-31 12:40 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:23:18 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:40:34 UTC 
There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]() in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to denial of service.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482296
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:43:16 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
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