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CVE-2018-17581

Date: September 27, 2018

CiffDirectory::readDirectory() at crwimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.26 has excessive stack consumption due to a recursive function, leading to Denial of service.

Language: C++

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (11)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17581

Url: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/460

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17581

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17581

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17581

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/

Url: https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/Exiv2

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-17581

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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