Bug 1728494 (CVE-2019-13114)

Summary:	CVE-2019-13114 exiv2: null-pointer dereference in http.c causing denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jgrulich, michel, rdieter, rschiron
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	exiv 0.27.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1728495, 1730630, 1730631
Bug Blocks:	1728496

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-10 05:28:04 UTC

A vulnerability was discovered in http.c in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows a malicious http server to cause a denial of service (crash due to a NULL pointer dereference) by returning a crafted response that lacks a space character.

Reference:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/793
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/815

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-07-10 05:28:15 UTC

Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1728495]

Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-07-17 08:33:57 UTC

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/ccde30afa8ca787a3fe17388a15977f107a53b72 [master branch]
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/ae20c30805b330275b2aa0303a42e1f2bbd53661 [0.27-maintenance branch]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:27:42 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

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:33:11 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-2019-13114