Bug 1500309 (CVE-2017-14865) - CVE-2017-14865 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Exiv2::us2Data function
Summary: CVE-2017-14865 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Exiv2::us2Data function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14865
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1475370
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 11:26 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:27:52 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:26:46 UTC 
There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the Exiv2::us2Data function of types.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494778
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:29:01 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
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