CVE-2017-17669 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2017-17669?

CVE-2017-17669 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17669?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Exiv2 Exiv2.

How do I fix CVE-2017-17669?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-17669 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17669 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17669, GHSA-4635-wwr6-rxx5, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17669.