#VU69761 Resource exhaustion in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-17581

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#VU69761 Resource exhaustion in Exiv2 - CVE-2018-17581

Published: November 30, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU69761
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17581
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources caused by excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function within the CiffDirectory::readDirectory() function in crwimage_int.cpp. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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