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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-11553

There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote denial of service.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:10 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-11553

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Jul 2017, 03:29 UTC

There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote denial of service.

osv:CVE-2017-11553
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11553",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-11553",
    "summary": "There is an illegal address access in the extend_alias_table function in localealias.c of Exiv2 0.26. A crafted input will lead to remote denial of service.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-11553",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/exiv2/exiv2",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "fa449a4d2c58d63f0d75ff259f25683a98a44630"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:exiv2:exiv2:0.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.26"
                      },
                      {
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                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
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              }
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          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.26",
            "v0.26"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.851180762Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471772"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-11553",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440364,
  "published_at": "2017-07-23T03:29:00.97+00:00"
}