[Secure-testing-team] Bug#888872: exiv2: CVE-2017-12956

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: exiv2
Version: 0.26-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/59

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for exiv2, only affecting
experimental.

CVE-2017-12956[0]:
| There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]()
| in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to remote
| denial of service.

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-2017-12956
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12956
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/59

Regards,
Salvatore