SB2020051950 - Uncontrolled Recursion in libexif (Alpine package)
Published: May 19, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020051950
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20030)
CWE-ID: CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to recursion issue when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and exhaust all available CPU resources.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=5dea23e076ed7123339473f529d74d8a9362e7c6
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=726529dabef044127d02831c4b26fa6c6fc9d5f5
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7d1a8137daa5c1f5312ad957dc1857027b8999df
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=9959b863135bbaa1251dbddfa038c9256e155702
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=cc9c8ab403cd5dfa204be58c326dd98d0702d70c