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CVE-2017-11683

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

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.

Affected products

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

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100030
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475124
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00013.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100030
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475124
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00013.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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