CVE-2018-10999 (NVD)

2018-05-12

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

Products Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Exiv2
Type Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer (CWE-119)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/306
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3700-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4238