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CVE-2018-10999

Published: 12 May 2018

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.26. The Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk function has a heap-based buffer over-read.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
exiv2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		artful
Released (0.25-3.1ubuntu0.17.10.1)
bionic
Released (0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1)
trusty
Released (0.23-1ubuntu2.1)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.2)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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