CVE-2019-9144

NameCVE-2019-9144
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at BigTiffImage::printIFD in the file bigtiffimage.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs923473

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
exiv2 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.24-4.1+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security)0.25-3.1+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch0.25-3.1+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)0.25-4+deb10u4fixed
bullseye0.27.3-3+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)0.27.3-3+deb11u1fixed
bookworm0.27.6-1fixed
sid, trixie0.28.3+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
exiv2sourcejessie(not affected)
exiv2sourcestretch(not affected)
exiv2sourcebuster(not affected)
exiv2source(unstable)0.27.2-8low923473

Notes

[buster] - exiv2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - exiv2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - exiv2 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/712

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