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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2018-20820

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

read_ujpg in jpgcoder.cc in Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application runtime crash because of an integer overflow) via a crafted file.

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

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published