CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17581
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
CiffDirectory::readDirectory() at crwimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function, leading to Denial of service.
Affected configurations
• exiv2 exiv2 0.26
• exiv2 exiv2 0.27
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/460 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/Exiv2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/460 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/Exiv2 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/ Third Party Advisory