Resource Exhaustion Affecting libexiv2-26 package, versions <0.26-150000.6.16.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBEXIV226-3051085
  • published18 Oct 2022
  • disclosed17 Oct 2022

Introduced: 17 Oct 2022

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libexiv2-26 to version 0.26-150000.6.16.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexiv2-26 package and not the libexiv2-26 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.

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