Resource Exhaustion Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.21-5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBEXIF-517126
  • published8 Jan 2019
  • disclosed20 Feb 2019

Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20030  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libexif to version 0.6.21-5.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif package and not the libexif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0.6.21 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.