Resource Exhaustion Affecting exiv2-debugsource package, versions <0:0.27.4-5.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-EXIV2DEBUGSOURCE-3283257
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed17 May 2021

Introduced: 17 May 2021

CVE-2021-32617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 exiv2-debugsource to version 0:0.27.4-5.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:4173.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exiv2-debugsource package and not the exiv2-debugsource package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An inefficient algorithm (quadratic complexity) was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The inefficient algorithm is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as rm.

CVSS Scores

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