exiv2: CVE-2018-8976

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8976  

Debian Bug report logs - #903813
exiv2: CVE-2018-8976

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:24:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream

Found in version exiv2/0.25-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/246

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Bug#903813; Package src:exiv2. (Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:24:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: exiv2: CVE-2018-8976
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 09:20:58 +0200
Source: exiv2
Version: 0.25-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/246

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for exiv2.

CVE-2018-8976[0]:
| In Exiv2 0.26, jpgimage.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial
| of service (image.cpp Exiv2::Internal::stringFormat out-of-bounds read)
| via a crafted file.

The issue looks present as well pre-0.26.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8976
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8976
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/246
[2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/256

Regards,
Salvatore



Added tag(s) fixed-upstream. Request was from debian-bts-link@lists.debian.org to control@bugs.debian.org. (Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:15:11 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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