CVE-2017-11591 — exiv2 - security update

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.

How to fix CVE-2017-11591

To remediate CVE-2017-11591, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

Debian/exiv2—upgrade to 0.27.2-6 or later
Debian/exiv2—upgrade to 0.23-1+deb7u2 or later
—upgrade to 0.25-4+deb10u4 or later

Is CVE-2017-11591 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

from 0, < 0.27.2-6
from 0, < 0.23-1+deb7u2
from 0, < 0.25-4+deb10u4

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)

ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11591