Infinite loop in Mgetty+Sendfax - CVE-2019-1010189

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Infinite loop in Mgetty+Sendfax - CVE-2019-1010189

Published: August 7, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19977
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 1.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-1010189
CWE-ID: CWE-835
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 infinite loop in g3/g32pbm.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, pass it to the application and consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.


Affected software

Mgetty+Sendfax
Fedora
mgetty

How to mitigate CVE-2019-1010189

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mgetty+Sendfax - update to 1.2.1
mgetty - update to 1.2.1-6.fc29

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