CVE-2017-11683

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Published 2017-07-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

There is a reachable assertion in the Internal::TiffReader::visitDirectory function in tiffvisitor.cpp of Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11683

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11683.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.27.2-6
debian debianbullseyefixed0.27.2-6
debian debianforkyfixed0.27.2-6
debian debiansidfixed0.27.2-6
debian debiantrixiefixed0.27.2-6
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.10affected
debian debian10.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
exiv2exiv20.26

References

CWEs

CWE-617

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.