SB2019030713 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Exiv2

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SB2019030713 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Exiv2

Published: March 7, 2019 Updated: November 30, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2019030713
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9143)

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

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure() function in the file image.cpp. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources via a specially crafted image and cause denial of service conditions.


2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9144)

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

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop in BigTiffImage::printIFD() function in the file bigtiffimage.cpp. A remote attacker can consume all available system resources via a specially crafted image and cause denial of service conditions.


3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17581)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources caused by excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function within the CiffDirectory::readDirectory() function in crwimage_int.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Uncaught Exception (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11591)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a floating point exception in the Exiv2::ValueType function in Exiv2. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted image to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References