exiv2: CVE-2018-9145

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-9145  

Debian Bug report logs - #910909
exiv2: CVE-2018-9145

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

Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:45:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream

Found in version exiv2/0.26-1

Forwarded to https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/470

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Bug#910909; Package src:exiv2. (Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:45:04 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-2018-9145
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:41:54 +0200
Source: exiv2
Version: 0.26-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/470

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for exiv2, affecting the
*experimental* version (0.26-1).

CVE-2018-9145[0]:
| In the DataBuf class in include/exiv2/types.hpp in Exiv2 0.26, an
| issue exists in the constructor with an initial buffer size. A large
| size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory
| allocation. NOTE: some third parties have been unable to reproduce the
| SIGABRT when using the 4-DataBuf-abort-1 PoC file.

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-2018-9145
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9145
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/470
[2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/c03f73268f65c73f9d3d7b670f13e48e92692750

Regards,
Salvatore



Added tag(s) fixed-upstream. Request was from debian-bts-link@lists.debian.org to control@bugs.debian.org. (Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:45:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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