Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting gnome-color-manager package, versions <0:3.28.0-3.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.71% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMECOLORMANAGER-3667442
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Feb 2019

Introduced: 21 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-9143  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 gnome-color-manager to version 0:3.28.0-3.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1577.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-color-manager package and not the gnome-color-manager package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.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.