CVE-2019-17402 — Classic Buffer Overflow in Exiv2

CWE-120 — Classic Buffer OverflowCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Exiv2Debian Exiv2Canonical Ubuntu Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages6 packages

▶debiandebian/exiv2< exiv2 0.27.3-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianexiv2/exiv2< 0.27.3-1+3
▶NVDexiv2/exiv20.27.2

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xhv3-q5hx-88ww: Exiv2 0↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-17402: Exiv2 0↗2019-10-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Exiv2 vulnerability↗2019-10-21
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Microsoft
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 th↗2019-10-08
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Red Hat
exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check↗2019-10-06
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Debian
CVE-2019-17402: exiv2 - Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17402 exiv2: no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size leads to a crash [fedora-all]↗2019-11-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17402 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check↗2019-11-18
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