Integer overflow in Exiv2 - CVE-2019-13109
Published: July 28, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19510
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13109
CWE-ID: CWE-190
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 integer overflow in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 due to PngImage::readMetadata mishandles a chunkLength - iccOffset subtraction. A remote attacker can create a crafted PNG image file, trigger integer overflow and perform denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13109
Install update from vendor's website.