Exiv2 printing denial of service
| exiv2-printing-dos (42885) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Exiv2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a floating point exception in the printing function while processing Nicon camera lens information. By sending a specially-crafted metadata image using the Exiv2 library, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.7 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Exiv2 (0.17 or later), available from the Exiv2 Web site. See References.
References:
- Exiv2 changelog: Changes from version 0.16 to 0.17.
- Exiv2 Web site: Download.
- Mantis Bug ID: 0000546 : Exiv2 crashes while converting Nikon lens information for pretty printing.
- BID-29586: Exiv2 Pretty Printing for Nikon Lens Metadata Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-2696: Exiv2 0.16 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash) via a zero value in Nikon lens information in the metadata of an image, related to pretty printing and the RationalValue::toLong function.
- MDVSA-2008:119: Updated exiv2 packages fix vulnerability
- SA30519: Exiv2 Nicon Lens Information Printing Denial of Service
- SUSE-SR:2008:023: SUSE Security Summary Report
- USN-655-1: exiv2 vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-1766: Exiv2 Nikon Lens Information Convertion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Andreas Huggel Exiv2 0.16
- Canonical Ubuntu 7.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 7.10
- Canonical Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2007.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.1
Reported:
Jun 06, 2008
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