Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU13577

Memory corruption in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-12264

Published: July 5, 2018

Vulnerability identifier: #VU13577

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12264

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflows in LoaderTiff::getData() in preview.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::ValueType::setDataArea in value.hpp and perform a denial of service attack.

Affected software

Exiv2
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-12264

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/366

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