[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#916081: exiv2: CVE-2018-16336

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Sun Dec 9 21:05:18 GMT 2018


Source: exiv2
Version: 0.25-4
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/400
Control: found -1 0.26-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for exiv2.

CVE-2018-16336[0]:
| Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk in Exiv2 v0.26 allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read)
| via a crafted image file, a different vulnerability than
| CVE-2018-10999.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16336
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16336
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/400
[2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/35b3e596edacd2437c2c5d3dd2b5c9502626163d

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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