Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2 - CVE-2024-39695

Vulnerability identifier: #VU93855

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-2024-39695

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the parser for the ASF video format in AsfVideo::streamProperties(). A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted media file to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Exiv2
Gentoo Linux
openEuler
exiv2
exiv2-debuginfo
exiv2-debugsource
exiv2-devel
exiv2-help
media-gfx/exiv2

Install updates from vendor's website.

Exiv2 - update to 0.28.3
exiv2 - update to 0.28.2-2
exiv2-debuginfo - update to 0.28.2-2
exiv2-debugsource - update to 0.28.2-2
exiv2-devel - update to 0.28.2-2
exiv2-help - update to 0.28.2-2
media-gfx/exiv2 - update to 0.28.8

• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-38rv-8x93-pvrh

• Denial of service in Exiv2
• openEuler 24.03 LTS update for exiv2
• Gentoo update for Exiv2