CVE-2018-16336 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-16336?

CVE-2018-16336 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk in Exiv2 v0.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-10999.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-16336?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Exiv2 Exiv2.

How do I fix CVE-2018-16336?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-16336 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16336 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16336, GHSA-f8wg-6gh7-2p7p, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16336.