Resource Exhaustion Affecting gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance package, versions <0:3.28.1-7.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GNOMESHELLEXTENSIONLAUNCHNEWINSTANCE-4454544
  • 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 RHEL:7 gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance to version 0:3.28.1-7.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHBA-2019:2044.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance package and not the gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL: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.