CVE-2019-1010189
published 2019-07-24CVE-2019-1010189: mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack…
PriorityP418medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.83%
53.1th percentile
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
Affected
7 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | mgetty | < mgetty 1.2.1-1 (bookworm) | mgetty 1.2.1-1 (bookworm) |
| mgetty | mgetty | — | — |
| mgetty_project | mgetty | < 1.2.1 | 1.2.1 |
| mgetty_project | mgetty | >= 0 < 1.2.1-1 | 1.2.1-1 |
| mgetty_project | mgetty | >= 0 < 1.2.1-1 | 1.2.1-1 |
| mgetty_project | mgetty | >= 0 < 1.2.1-1 | 1.2.1-1 |
| mgetty_project | mgetty | >= 0 < 1.2.1-1 | 1.2.1-1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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Red Hat
mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
vendor_redhat·2019-08-09·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
Package: mgetty (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Out of support scope
Package: mgetty (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Out of support scope
Package: mgetty (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Will not fix
Debian
CVE-2019-1010189: mgetty - mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS,...
vendor_debian·2019·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-1010189: mgetty - mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS,...
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 1.2.1-1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 1.2.1-1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 1.2.1-1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 1.2.1-1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 1.2.1-1)
GHSA
GHSA-wrc7-358r-9hwc: mgetty prior to version 1
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-24
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 GHSA-wrc7-358r-9hwc: mgetty prior to version 1
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
OSV
CVE-2019-1010189: mgetty prior to version 1
osv·2019-07-24·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-1010189: mgetty prior to version 1
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
bugzilla·2019-08-09·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file.
External References:
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/
Discussion:
Created mgetty tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-29 [bug 1739376]
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Created attachment 1652882
Upstream patch
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Upstream patch for this issue (attached):
commit 0162663ed5f45209792995b54e36424334ee46da
Author: Gert Doering
Date: Thu Sep 6 23:14:49 2018 +0200
Fix invalid lseek() leading to infinite loop in g32pbm
Commit 3ab78bddf4 "cleaned up code", supposedly r
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS [fedora-29]
bugzilla·2019-08-09·CVSS 5.5
CVE-2019-1010189 [MEDIUM] CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS [fedora-29]
CVE-2019-1010189 mgetty: opening a specially crafted file leads to an infinite loop and DoS [fedora-29]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-29.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
Discussion:
Use the follow
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YH7KTF6IB4LZURQHCOICNVE6YDAIHV62/https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YH7KTF6IB4LZURQHCOICNVE6YDAIHV62/https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty/
2019-07-24
Published