CVE-2018-17581

Publication date 28 September 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

CiffDirectory::readDirectory() at crwimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function, leading to Denial of service.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.23-1ubuntu2.2

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
exiv2	Upstream: b3d077d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3852-1
Exiv2 vulnerabilities
10 January 2019