What is CVE-2019-13109?

CVE-2019-13109 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exiv2, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-13109?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Exiv2

CVE-2019-13109

An integer overflow in Exiv2 through 0.27.1 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV) via a crafted PNG image file, because PngImage::readMetadata mishandles a chunkLength - iccOffset subtraction.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

EPSS: 0.016 (73.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Exiv2
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 30
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-13109?: CVE-2019-13109 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exiv2, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-06-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-13109?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.