CVE-2017-11591: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a Floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack via crafted input.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: version 0.26 only

Published 2017-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.