Bug 1632490 (CVE-2018-17282)

Summary: CVE-2018-17282 exiv2: NULL pointer dereference in Exiv2::DataValue::copy in value.cpp leading to application crash
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
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Bug Depends On: 1632491, 1632492, 1647970    
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-09-24 21:33:39 UTC
An issue was discovered in Exiv2 v0.26. The function Exiv2::DataValue::copy in value.cpp has a NULL pointer dereference.


References:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/457

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-09-24 21:35:00 UTC
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632491]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2018-11-08 16:17:40 UTC
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This issue did not affect the versions of exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 prior to 7.5 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:14:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:19:50 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-2018-17282

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:27:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1577 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1577