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Ubuntu: USN-3852-1 (CVE-2018-17581): Exiv2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3852-1 (CVE-2018-17581): Exiv2 vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/28/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/17/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

CiffDirectory::readDirectory() at crwimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function, leading to Denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-exiv2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-14

References

  • USN-3852-1
  • CVE-2018-17581

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