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CVE-2017-11591

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-24 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

There is a Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• exiv2: 0.26

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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