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CVE-2017-17669

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk function of pngchunk_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A crafted PNG file will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

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

References

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/187
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/187
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

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