CVE-2017-14859 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An Invalid memory address dereference was discovered in Exiv2::StringValueBase::read in value.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00129.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Canonical	Ubuntu Linux
Debian	Debian Linux
Exiv2	Exiv2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*

Configuration 3 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494780
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14859
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14859

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00078}`	epss `{'score': 0.00123}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-28T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:42:21.500Z

Reserved: 2017-09-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-14859

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-29T01:34:49.763

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-14859

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-14859 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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