CVE-2019-17402

Publication date 9 October 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exiv2 19.10 eoan
Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu2.1
19.04 disco
Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu1.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.5
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

leosilva

second patch adds a regression test.

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

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