Critical severity · published Oct 14, 2019
CVE-2019-17545
GDAL through 3.0.1 has a poolDestroy double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp when the 10MB threshold is exceeded
9.8
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
GDAL through 3.0.1 has a poolDestroy double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp when the 10MB threshold is exceeded.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BS
Backports Sle · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31 · source: NVD
GD
Gdal · Osgeo
through 3.0.1 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1 · source: NVD
SA
Spatial And Graph · Oracle
12.2.0.1; 19c · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17545
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17545
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00022.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16178
Patch
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/148115fcc40f1651a5d15fa34c9a8c528e7147bb
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00005.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00004.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00040.html
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