Bug 1660423 (CVE-2018-20096)

Summary: CVE-2018-20096 exiv2: Heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::tEXtToDataBuf function resulting in a denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 1660427, 1660428, 1665492, 1665493    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 10:09:16 UTC
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::tEXtToDataBuf function of pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/590

References:

https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/exiv2/20181206

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 10:12:48 UTC
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1660427]


Created mingw-exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1660428]

Comment 6 Adam Mariš 2019-01-11 15:29:44 UTC
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

This issue affects the versions of exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Low. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:14:52 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 19:20:23 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-2018-20096

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:27:30 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