Source: exiv2 Version: 0.24-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/168
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for exiv2. CVE-2017-18005[0]: | Exiv2 0.26 has a Null Pointer Dereference in the | Exiv2::DataValue::toLong function in value.cpp, related to crafted | metadata in a TIFF file. The underlying issue according to [2] is that the code is trying to pring a value in the if statement: if (Params::instance().printItems_ & Params::prValue) when this might not be possible. Fix is done via [2]. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18005 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18005 [1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/168 [2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/199 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed, please double check my assessment for it back to 0.24-1 is done right. The poc does not trigger, if I'm not completely wrong the affected code is there. Regards, Salvatore _______________________________________________ Secure-testing-team mailing list Secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-team
