Bug 1988977 (CVE-2020-19715) - CVE-2020-19715 exiv2: integer buffer overflow in getUShort fucntion leads to DoS
Summary: CVE-2020-19715 exiv2: integer buffer overflow in getUShort fucntion leads to DoS
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1728486
Alias: CVE-2020-19715
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1988978
Blocks: 1988983
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Reported: 2021-08-02 08:23 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-08-03 00:45 UTC (History)
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-02 08:23:47 UTC 
An integer overflow vulnerability in the getUShort function of Exiv2 0.27.1
results in segmentation faults within the application, leading to a denial of
service (DOS).

References:
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/979
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2021-08-02 08:24:05 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1988978]
Comment 2 Todd Cullum 2021-08-03 00:45:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1728486 ***
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