CVE-2017-17669

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17669
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17669.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17669
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-12-13T22:29:00.237Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:49:33.258744910Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.10"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "10.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "10.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exiv2/exiv2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exiv2/exiv2
Events
Introduced
fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630
Last affected
fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.26"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.26"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.26
v0.*
v0.26

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17669.json"