Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU20308

Reachable Assertion in Exiv2 - CVE-2019-13113

Published: August 19, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU20308

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13113

CWE-ID: CWE-617

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 a reachable assertion due to assertion failure) via an invalid data location in a CRW image file. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (crash.

Affected software

Exiv2
exiv2 (Alpine package)
exiv2
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13113

Install update from vendor's website.

Exiv2 - update to 0.27.2
exiv2 (Alpine package) - update to 0.27.2-r0
exiv2 - update to 0.27.2-1.fc30

External References

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/841
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/842
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4056-1/

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