Improper Input Validation Affecting libexif-devel package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBEXIFDEVEL-1383721
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed20 Dec 2018
Introduced: 20 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20030 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libexif-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif-devel package and not the libexif-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-20030
- https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89
- https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/