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CVE-2018-17282

Published: 20 September 2018

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 v0.26. The function Exiv2::DataValue::copy in value.cpp has a NULL pointer dereference.

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva
Vulnerable code introduced later.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
exiv2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected)
xenial Not vulnerable

bionic Not vulnerable

cosmic Not vulnerable

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/670fb73dd5ee8acab90971c4878de29f9fc43a02

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H