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CVE-2019-17402

Publication date 9 October 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exiv2 19.10 eoan
Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu2.1
19.04 disco
Fixed 0.25-4ubuntu1.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.5
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

leosilva

second patch adds a regression test.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
exiv2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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