Bug 1554423 (CVE-2018-8050) - CVE-2018-8050 afflib: denial of service (DoS) in af_get_page() function in lib/afflib_pages.cpp
Summary: CVE-2018-8050 afflib: denial of service (DoS) in af_get_page() function in li...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-8050
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1554425 1554426 1554427
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-12 16:14 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2020-04-22 04:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:17:32 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-03-12 16:14:56 UTC
A flaw was found in AFFLIB (aka AFFLIBv3) through 3.7.16. The af_get_page() function in lib/afflib_pages.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a corrupt AFF image that triggers an unexpected pagesize value.


References:
https://github.com/sshock/AFFLIBv3/pull/31

Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/sshock/AFFLIBv3/commit/435a2ca802358a3debb6d164d2c33049131df81c

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-03-12 16:15:56 UTC
Created afflib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1554426]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1554427]

Comment 3 Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) 2018-03-12 17:07:41 UTC
The fedora security fixes are on their way. But on epel-7, I think the previous afflib package wasn't built by the previous maintainer there (as the build failed). So there is a diff between what's in git and what's in repos.

If you have more info about which version is affected here I will try to work on this as possible.

Comment 4 Andrej Nemec 2018-03-13 08:23:25 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) from comment #3)
> The fedora security fixes are on their way. But on epel-7, I think the
> previous afflib package wasn't built by the previous maintainer there (as
> the build failed). So there is a diff between what's in git and what's in
> repos.
> 
> If you have more info about which version is affected here I will try to
> work on this as possible.

Hello Nicolas :) 

Thank you for working on this! I'm completely fine with either rebasing epel-7 to fedora version, or waiting on the upstream version. This security issue does not seem to be very impactful. 

As a side note, please, don't modify this bug in any way as it's used as a placeholder to store all flaw neutral information from the Product Security Team perspective. Thanks!


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