Buffer overflow in Exiv2 and Fedora - CVE-2014-9449
Published: January 2, 2015 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33553
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2014-9449
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Buffer overflow in the RiffVideo::infoTagsHandler function in riffvideo.cpp in Exiv2 0.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long IKEY INFO tag value in an AVI file.
Affected software
Exiv2
Fedora
Gentoo Linux
exiv2 (Alpine package)
exiv2
Fedora
Gentoo Linux
exiv2 (Alpine package)
exiv2
How to mitigate CVE-2014-9449
Install update from vendor's website.
exiv2 (Alpine package) - update to 0.25-r0
exiv2 - update to 0.24-4.fc21
exiv2 - update to 0.24-4.fc21
External References
- http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/960
- http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/repository/diff?rev=3264&rev_to=3263
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148382.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61801
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71912
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2454-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-03