CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-9143

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Feb 25, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
4 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Exiv2 Exiv2 0.27 (including) 0.27 (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 *

Potential Mitigations

References