Bug 626352 (CVE-2017-11683)

Summary:	<media-gfx/exiv2-0.26_p20171018: remote denial of service attack via crafted input (CVE-2017-11683)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) <chrisadr>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	graphics+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11683
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	626132

Description Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-27 10:45:22 UTC

From URL:

There is a reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitDirectory function in tiffvisitor.cpp of Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2017-11-05 13:22:01 UTC

Fixed in >=media-gfx/exiv2-0.26_p20171018.

Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2017-11-19 15:31:54 UTC

Cleanup done in git commit cdb23e8b3608be50daebdeb5d904b179a58d8339

Comment 3 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2018-01-05 17:08:07 UTC

New GLSA request filed.


Gentoo Security Padawan
(Jmbailey/mbailey_j)

Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-01-08 00:22:49 UTC

Downgrading to B3, DoS only.

Repository is clean, all done.