CVE-2017-17669

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17669
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17669.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17669
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-12-13T22:29:00.237Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:24:08.524766Z
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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exiv2/exiv2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exiv2/exiv2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.26"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.10
v0.11
v0.12
v0.13
v0.14
v0.15
v0.16
v0.16-pre1
v0.17
v0.17.1
v0.18
v0.18-pre1
v0.18-pre2
v0.18.1
v0.18.2
v0.19
v0.20
v0.21
v0.21.1
v0.22
v0.23
v0.23.1
v0.24
v0.25
v0.26
v0.3
v0.4
v0.5
v0.6
v0.6.1
v0.6.2
v0.7
v0.8
v0.9
v0.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17669.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]