CVE-2018-17581 (NVD)

2018-09-28

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

Products Ubuntu_linux, Debian_linux, Exiv2, Enterprise_linux_desktop, Enterprise_linux_server, Enterprise_linux_workstation
Type Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Patches • https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/Exiv2
• https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/460
Links • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3852-1/
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00038.html