CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18915

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Nov 03, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

There is an infinite loop in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function of image.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC1. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Exiv2 Exiv2 0.27-rc1 (including) 0.27-rc1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat exiv2-0:0.27.0-2.el7_6 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat exiv2-0:0.27.2-5.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat gegl-0:0.2.0-39.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat gnome-color-manager-0:3.28.0-3.el8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libgexiv2-0:0.10.8-4.el8 *

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