CVE-2019-9143

Summary

CVECVE-2019-9143
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-25 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Exiv2 Exiv2 0.27 All All All
Application Exiv2 Exiv2 0.27 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
uncontrolled recursion loop in Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure() · Issue #711 · Exiv2/exiv2 · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
107161 BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2019-9143: Uncontrolled recursion loop in Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure() - exiv2-0.27 - Loginsoft Research MISC research.loginsoft.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 940399 AlmaLinux Security Update for exiv2 (ALSA-2020:1577)
  • 960313 Rocky Linux Security Update for exiv2 (RLSA-2020:1577)
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