Bug 1570191 (CVE-2018-10113)

Summary:	CVE-2018-10113 gegl: unbounded memory allocation in process function in operations/external/ppm-load.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dakingun, jridky, nphilipp
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Bug Depends On:	1570186, 1570189, 1609103, 1609104
Bug Blocks:	1570194

Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-20 20:42:28 UTC

A flaw was discovered in GEGL through 0.3.32. The process function in operations/external/ppm-load.c has unbounded memory allocation, leading to a denial of service (application crash) upon allocation failure.


References:
https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/gegl

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-20 20:44:01 UTC

Created gegl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1570186]

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2018-07-27 02:53:37 UTC

Created gegl03 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1609104]

Comment 5 Debarshi Ray 2018-08-24 16:23:18 UTC

As an upstream contributor to GEGL, and a downstream Fedora packager, I am surprised that this managed to bubble all the way up to becoming a CVE!

As far as I can make out, this was originally filed as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795249, which got migrated to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gegl/issues/65 Note the complete lack of response from the reporter after the initial submission. Anyway, I have added a comment to the Gitlab issue that should clarify the situation a bit more.

In short, this is a known problem that's being worked on. It's not possible to fix it with a small localized fix that can be carried downstream.