Bug 1103870 (CVE-2017-11553)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2017-11553: exiv2: There is an illegal address access in basicio.cpp of exiv2.
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Marcus Meissner <meissner>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	meissner, smash_bz
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/189024/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Marcus Meissner 2018-08-06 08:54:39 UTC

rh#1471772

There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in
localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote denial of
service.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471772
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475368
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-11553
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-11553.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11553

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2018-08-06 08:54:57 UTC

this was already addressed with released updates.