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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-20819

io/ZlibCompression.cc in the decompression component in Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by crafting a jpg image file. The root cause is a missing check of header payloads that may be (incorrectly) larger than the maximum file size.

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CVE-2018-20819
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31 Oct 2026, 09:49 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-20819

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Apr 2019, 14:29 UTC

io/ZlibCompression.cc in the decompression component in Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by crafting a jpg image file. The root cause is a missing check of header payloads that may be (incorrectly) larger than the maximum file size.

osv:CVE-2018-20819
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20819",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2018-20819",
    "summary": "io/ZlibCompression.cc in the decompression component in Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by crafting a jpg image file. The root cause is a missing check of header payloads that may be (incorrectly) larger than the maximum file size.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-20819",
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    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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                        "introduced": "1.2.1"
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          "versions": [
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:03.746388539Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/112"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379990,
  "published_at": "2019-04-23T14:29:00.32+00:00"
}