pysec - pysec-2021-879

pysec-2021-879

Vulnerability from pysec

Published

2021-08-19 22:15

Modified

2024-10-15 17:22

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

An uncontrolled memory allocation in DataBufdata(subBox.length-sizeof(box)) function of Exiv2 0.27 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via a crafted input.

Impacted products

Name	purl
exiv2	pkg:pypi/exiv2

Aliases

CVE-2020-18899

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  "details": "An uncontrolled memory allocation in DataBufdata(subBox.length-sizeof(box)) function of Exiv2 0.27 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via a crafted input.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2021-879",
  "modified": "2024-10-15T17:22:01.866867+00:00",
  "published": "2021-08-19T22:15:00+00:00",
  "references": [
    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/742"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/742"
    },
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      "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/789.html"
    },
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    }
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}

CVE-2020-18899 (GCVE-0-2020-18899)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-08-19 00:00

Modified

2024-10-15 15:11

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

An uncontrolled memory allocation in DataBufdata(subBox.length-sizeof(box)) function of Exiv2 0.27 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DOS) via a crafted input.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/742
	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/789.html
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-06	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

Show details on NVD website

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