#VU13574 Memory corruption in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-10958

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#VU13574 Memory corruption in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-10958

Published: July 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13574
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10958
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Exiv2
Software vendor:
GNU

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in types.cpp when processing a large size value. A remote attacker can perform Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::zlibUncompress call and cause a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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