CVE-2018-14851 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-14851?

CVE-2018-14851 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Aug 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.6.37, 7.0.x before 7.0.31, 7.1.x before 7.1.20, and 7.2.x before 7.2.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted JPEG file.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-14851?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Netapp Storage Automation Store, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2018-14851?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-14851 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-14851 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-14851, GHSA-f8q9-j8w7-gmcr, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14851.