Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2 - CVE-2019-13504

Vulnerability identifier: #VU19220

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13504

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system.

The vulnerability exists due to an out-of-bounds read error in the "Exiv2::MrwImage::readMetadata" function in the "mrwimage.cpp" file. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted media file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the affected application to crash.

Exiv2
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
openEuler
Fedora
exiv2
exiv2-debuginfo
exiv2-devel
exiv2-debugsource
exiv2-help

Install update from vendor's website.

Exiv2 - update to 0.27.3
exiv2 - update to 0.27.2-1.fc30
exiv2 - addressed in versions 0.27.5-1, 0.27.5-2
exiv2-debuginfo - addressed in versions 0.27.5-1, 0.27.5-2
exiv2-devel - addressed in versions 0.27.5-1, 0.27.5-2
exiv2-debugsource - addressed in versions 0.27.5-1, 0.27.5-2
exiv2-help - addressed in versions 0.27.5-1, 0.27.5-2

• https://fuzzit.dev/2019/07/11/discovering-cve-2019-13504-cve-2019-13503-and-the-importance-of-api-fuzzing/
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/943

• Denial of service in Exiv2
• Amazon Linux AMI update for git
• OpenSUSE Linux update for git
• Gentoo update for Git
• Gentoo update for libgit2
• OpenSUSE Linux update for git
• openEuler update for exiv2
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP3 update for exiv2
• openEuler 22.03 LTS update for exiv2
• Fedora 30 update for exiv2