CVE-2018-10958

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In types.cpp in Exiv2 0.26, a large size value may lead to a SIGABRT during an attempt at memory allocation for an Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::zlibUncompress call.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
exiv2: 0.26

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/302
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3700-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4238
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2101
https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/302
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00010.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00012.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-14

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