Buffer overflow in GNU Exiv2

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU36299

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20097

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is a SEGV in Exiv2::Internal::TiffParserWorker::findPrimaryGroups of tiffimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Exiv2: 0.16 - 0.26

External links

http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101
http://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/590
http://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/exiv2/20181206
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXCEKTYF7HLM6VH2WCWO2HXTJH37MBLA/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.