Bug 1632490 (CVE-2018-17282) - CVE-2018-17282 exiv2: NULL pointer dereference in Exiv2::DataValue::copy in value.cpp leading to application crash
Summary: CVE-2018-17282 exiv2: NULL pointer dereference in Exiv2::DataValue::copy in v...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-17282
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1632491 1632492 1647970
Blocks: 1632487
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-09-24 21:33 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 19:19:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2101 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:14:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1577 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:27:21 UTC

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 
Statement:

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 4 Adam Mariš 2018-11-08 16:18:13 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/670fb73dd5ee8acab90971c4878de29f9fc43a02
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
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