Bug 1536904 (CVE-2018-5772) - CVE-2018-5772 exiv2: Uncontrolled recursion in image.cpp:Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure() can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file
Summary: CVE-2018-5772 exiv2: Uncontrolled recursion in image.cpp:Exiv2::Image::printI...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5772
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1536905 1548336 1548410
Blocks: 1536906
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Reported: 2018-01-22 01:51 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:37:45 UTC
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-01-22 01:51:22 UTC 
In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file.

External References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-5772

Upstream Issue:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/216

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/files/1643286/printStructureFixes.txt
Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-01-22 01:51:46 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1536905]
Comment 6 Dhiru Kholia 2018-02-23 09:10:51 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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