PT-2018-19183 · Exiv2 · Exiv2

Published 2018-05-10 · Updated 2018-05-10

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Exiv2 version 0.26

Description A large size value in Exiv2 may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation for an Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::zlibUncompress call.

Recommendations For Exiv2 version 0.26, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

PYSEC-2018-126

Affected Products

Exiv2

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2018-126 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4238 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/302 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html · Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html · Note
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3700-1 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 · Note