CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20096
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/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-125
Description
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::tEXtToDataBuf function of pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Affected configurations
• exiv2 exiv2 0.27
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/590 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/exiv2/20181206 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXCEKTYF7HLM6VH2WCWO2HXTJH37MBLA/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/590 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/exiv2/20181206 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXCEKTYF7HLM6VH2WCWO2HXTJH37MBLA/ lists.fedoraproject.org