CVE-2017-18233: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.4. Integer overflow in the Chunk class in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/RIFF.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted XMP data in a .avi file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Exempi Project Exempi: before 2.4.4 (fixed in 2.4.4)

Published 2018-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.