Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libexiv2-devel 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
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBEXIV2DEVEL-3051175
  • published18 Oct 2022
  • disclosed17 Oct 2022

Introduced: 17 Oct 2022

CVE-2021-37621  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexiv2-devel package and not the libexiv2-devel 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 infinite loop was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.4 and earlier. The infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 is used to print the metadata of 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. Note that this bug is only triggered when printing the image ICC profile, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation that requires an extra command line option (-p C). The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.

CVSS Scores

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