Bug 1500306 (CVE-2017-14857) - CVE-2017-14857 exiv2: Invalid free in the Image class
Summary: CVE-2017-14857 exiv2: Invalid free in the Image class
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14857
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: 2017-10-10 11:22 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:27:48 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:22:50 UTC 
In Exiv2 0.26, there is an invalid free in the Image class in image.cpp that leads to a Segmentation fault. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Product bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1495043
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 11:28:36 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475370]
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