Upstream information

CVE-2017-11592 at MITRE

Description

There is a Mismatched Memory Management Routines vulnerability in the Exiv2::FileIo::seek function of Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack (heap memory corruption) via crafted input.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.5 3.3
Vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector Network Local
Access Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None None
User Interaction None Required
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High Low
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1061023 [REOPENED], 1068871 [IN_PROGRESS], 1103872 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15
  • exiv2 >= 0.26-6.3.1
  • libexiv2-26 >= 0.26-6.3.1
  • libexiv2-devel >= 0.26-6.3.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-1280
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • exiv2 >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • exiv2-debuginfo >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • exiv2-debugsource >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • exiv2-lang >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-26 >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-26-32bit >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-26-32bit-debuginfo >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-26-debuginfo >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-devel >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
  • libexiv2-doc >= 0.26-lp150.5.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2018-727

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s) Source package State
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 GA exiv2 Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA LTSS exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 exiv2 Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 exiv2 Not affected