PT-2018-13957 · Exiv2+6 · Exiv2+6

Marsman1996 · Published 2018-09-17 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-17230

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Exiv2 version 0.26

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a heap-based buffer overflow, via a crafted image file. This is due to a problem in the Exiv2::ul2Data function in types.cpp.

Recommendations For Exiv2 version 0.26, update to a version that fixes this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2020:1577

ALT-PU-2019-2468

ALT-PU-2019-2590

CESA-2020_1577

CVE-2018-17230

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0482-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_0482-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12399-1

RHSA-2020:1577

RHSA-2020_1577

RLSA-2020:1577

SUSE-SU-2020:0921-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Centos

Exiv2

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

References · 99

• 🔥 https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/455 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17230 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00009.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:0921-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALSA-2020:1577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-1577.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17230 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RLSA-2020:1577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:0482-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-1577.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12399-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17230 · Security Note
• https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:1577 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1142684 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660426 · Note