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Vulnerability CVE-2018-16132
Published: 2018-08-29 Modified: 2018-08-30
| Description: |
The image rendering component (createGenericPreview) of the Open Whisper Signal app through 2.29.0 for iOS fails to check for unreasonably large images before manipulating received images. This allows for a large image sent to a user to exhaust all available memory when the image is displayed, resulting in a forced restart of the device. |
Type:
CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
| CVSS Base Score |
Impact Subscore |
Exploitability Subscore |
7.8/10 |
6.9/10 |
10/10 |
| Exploit range |
Attack complexity |
Authentication |
Remote |
Low |
No required |
| Confidentiality impact |
Integrity impact |
Availability impact |
None |
None |
Complete |
References: |
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Aug/57
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