Bug 1564277 – CVE-2018-9144 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Internal::binaryToString in image.cpp

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Bug 1564277 - (CVE-2018-9144) CVE-2018-9144 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Internal::binaryToString in image.cpp

Summary:	CVE-2018-9144 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Internal::binaryToString in...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2018-9144

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1564278 1564279 1564285
Blocks:	1564287
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Reported:	2018-04-05 17:35 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-04-17 16:15 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Doc Text:	An out-of-bound read has been found in Exiv2 in the way binary bytes are converted to string. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the Exiv2 CLI utility program by tricking it into processing a crafted TIFF image.
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Last Closed:	2018-04-17 05:22:37 EDT
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-05 17:35:54 EDT

A flaw was found in Exiv2 0.26, there is an out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Internal::binaryToString in image.cpp. This could result in a denial of service or information disclosure. 


References:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/254
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087877

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-05 17:36:22 EDT

Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1564279]

Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-04-17 05:21:42 EDT

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of Exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

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