Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-02-21 CWE: CWE-835 Bugzilla: 1683201: CVE-2019-9144 exiv2: infinite recursion in BigTiffImage::printIFD in bigtiffimage.cpp causing denial of service An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at BigTiffImage::printIFD in the file bigtiffimage.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-9144 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | exiv2 | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | exiv2 | Under investigation |
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