Bug 1566725 (CVE-2018-9303) - CVE-2018-9303 exiv2: assertion failure in BigTiffImage::readData in bigtiffimage.cpp
Summary: CVE-2018-9303 exiv2: assertion failure in BigTiffImage::readData in bigtiffim...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-9303
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: Engineering1566726 1566727 Engineering1566738
Blocks: Embargoed1566728
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Reported: 2018-04-12 21:19 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-04-18 11:47:05 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1577 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:27:03 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-04-12 21:19:13 UTC 
A flaw was found in Exiv2 0.26, an assertion failure in BigTiffImage::readData in bigtiffimage.cpp results in an abort.


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https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/exiv2/readme.md
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-04-12 21:20:17 UTC 
Created exiv2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1566727]
Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2018-04-18 11:46:47 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of Exiv2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as they did not include support for BigTIFF images.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:27:02 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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