CVE-2019-1010189 Denial of service in mgetty
An attacker can cause a denial of service in mgetty by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file, leading to an infinite loop.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-1010189?
CVE-2019-1010189 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in mgetty, published on 24 Jul 2019. 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
mgetty prior to version 1.2.1 is affected by: Infinite Loop. The impact is: DoS, the program does never terminates. The component is: g3/g32pbm.c. The attack vector is: Local, the user should open a specially crafted file. The fixed version is: 1.2.1.
Weakness: CWE-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1010189?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mgetty Project Mgetty.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1010189?
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-2019-1010189 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1010189 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in mgetty
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-1010189, GHSA-wrc7-358r-9hwc, MGASA-2020-0076, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1010189.