CVE-2019-9143

Published: 25 February 2019

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.

Notes

Author	Note
leosilva	issue was introduced in 0.27.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
exiv2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable
	cosmic	Not vulnerable
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was not-affected)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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