Bug 1487207 (CVE-2017-12955) - CVE-2017-12955 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp
Summary: CVE-2017-12955 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-12955
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: 1475370
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-31 12:39 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:23:17 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:39:28 UTC 
There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes an out-of-bounds write in Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure(), which may lead to remote denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482295
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-08-31 12:43:27 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
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