CVE-2018-17581

medium

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html

https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/Exiv2

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/460

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-28

Updated: 2023-01-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H