Bug 1956927 (CVE-2018-25014) - CVE-2018-25014 libwebp: use of uninitialized value in ReadSymbol()
Summary: CVE-2018-25014 libwebp: use of uninitialized value in ReadSymbol()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-25014
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1962004 1962005 1961614 1961615 1961677 1961678 1961679 1961680 1961681 1961742 1961978 1961979
Blocks: 1940150 1956995
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-04 16:46 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-04-17 21:22 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libwebp 1.0.1
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A flaw was found in libwebp. An unitialized variable is used in function ReadSymbol. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-06-09 03:04:05 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2328 0 None None None 2021-06-08 22:38:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:4231 0 None None None 2021-11-09 17:50:37 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-05-04 16:46:09 UTC 
A use of uninitialized value was found in libwebp in versions before 1.0.1 in ReadSymbol().

Reference:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9496
Comment 1 Riccardo Schirone 2021-05-18 11:06:38 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+log/78ad57a36ad69a9c22874b182d49d64125c380f2..907208f97ead639bd521cf355a2f203f462eade6
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2021-06-08 22:38:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:2328 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2328
Comment 10 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-09 03:04:05 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-2018-25014
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 17:50:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:4231 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4231
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