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CVE-2019-13108

Publication date 30 June 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

An integer overflow in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV) via a crafted PNG image file, because PngImage::readMetadata mishandles a zero value for iccOffset.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exiv2 19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


leosilva

in Xenial, Bionic, Cosmic and Disco, the poc does SIGSEGV but instead raise the Error(21) "Failed to read input data", what I believe is the expected behavior. Also, iccOffset code is not-present.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
exiv2

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