Memory corruption in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-10958
Published: July 5, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU13574
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10958
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GNU
Affected software:
Exiv2
Exiv2
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in types.cpp when processing a large size value. A remote attacker can perform Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::zlibUncompress call and cause a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-10958
Install update from vendor's website.