SB2018051605 - Denial of service in libgxps
Published: May 16, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018051605
Severity
Low
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Stack-based buffer over-read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10767)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the gxps_images_guess_content_type function due to improper rejection of negative return values from a g_input_stream_read call. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted request, trigger stack-based buffer overread when calling GLib in the gxps_images_guess_content_typefunction, as defined in the gxps-images.c source code file, and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.