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Vigil@nce - Exiv2: out-of-bounds memory reading via Exiv2-Internal-PngChunk-keyTXTChunk
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 26/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::keyTXTChunk() of Exiv2, in order to
trigger a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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