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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2018-12108

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1. The validateAndCompress function in validation.cc allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGFPE and application crash) via a malformed file.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published