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2019-02-20
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.
| Products | Libexif |
| Type | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) |
| First patch |
https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89 |
| Relevant file/s |
• ./NEWS (modified, +1)
• ./libexif/exif-data.c (modified, +37, -8) |
| Links |
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html • https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/ • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html • https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/ |
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