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high 7.5

CVE-2017-11591 json

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…

published 2017-07-24 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-0038

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • exiv2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.27.2-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11591

  • exiv2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.23-1ubuntu2.2
  • exiv2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
  • exiv2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11591

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • exiv2 SLES for SAP 15 SP2, SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15 +18 more 0.26-150000.6.26.1
  • exiv2-0_26 SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 0.26-150400.9.21.1
  • exiv2 SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP4 +5 more 0.23-12.5.1
  • exiv2 SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 0.26-6.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4276-1SUSE-SU-2022:4208-1SUSE-SU-2018:3882-2SUSE-SU-2018:3882-1SUSE-SU-2018:1882-1

  • exiv2 openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.27.4-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10747-1

  • exiv2 Arch Linux 0.27.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-360

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11591 updated cvss 3.3

exiv2: Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 exiv2, exiv2-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 exiv2, exiv2-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473888 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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