NULL Pointer Dereference 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

EPSS
0.8% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMECOLORMANAGER-3673036
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Nov 2017

Introduced: 18 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-18005  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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.

Exiv2 0.26 has a Null Pointer Dereference in the Exiv2::DataValue::toLong function in value.cpp, related to crafted metadata in a TIFF file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1