Bug 1559575 (CVE-2017-18233)

Summary: CVE-2017-18233 exempi: Infinite Loop in Chunk class in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/RIFF.cpp
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dakingun, jchaloup, nforro
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Fixed In Version: exempi 2.4.4 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1559577, 1559578, 1559603, 1574865    
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-03-22 19:47:32 UTC
An issue was discovered in Exempi before 2.4.4. An integer overflow in the Chunk class in XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/RIFF.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted XMP data in a .avi file.


Reference:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102151

Patch:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/exempi/commit/?id=65a8492832b7335ffabd01f5f64d89dec757c260

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-03-22 19:48:08 UTC
Created exempi tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1559578]

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-05-04 08:15:46 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 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:07:22 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 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:18:32 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-2017-18233