Resource Exhaustion Affecting finch-devel package, versions <0:2.10.11-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-FINCHDEVEL-2028545
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Dec 2018

Introduced: 13 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-5819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 finch-devel to version 0:2.10.11-8.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream finch-devel package and not the finch-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An error within the "parse_sinar_ia()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.