Bug 1558715 (CVE-2017-18238)

Summary:	CVE-2017-18238 exempi: Infinite loop in TradQT_Manager::ParseCachedBoxes function in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/QuickTime_Support.cpp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dakingun, jchaloup, nforro
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	exempi 2.4.4	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An infinite loop has been discovered in Exempi in the way it handles Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data in QuickTime files. An attacker could cause a denial of service via a crafted file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-08-06 19:18:31 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1558717, 1572268, 1572270
Bug Blocks:	1555158

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-03-20 21:09:36 UTC

An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.4. The TradQT_Manager::ParseCachedBoxes function in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/QuickTime_Support.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted XMP data in a .qt file.

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102483

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=886cd1d2314755adb1f4cdb99c16ff00830f0331

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-03-20 21:10:08 UTC

Created exempi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1558717]

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-04-26 15:02:40 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of Exempi as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:07:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2048 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2048

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:18:31 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-18238