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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMECOLORMANAGER-3703842
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Nov 2018

Introduced: 2 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-18915  (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.

There is an infinite loop in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function of image.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC1. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.