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Resource Exhaustion Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.21-2+deb8u3

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.71% (81st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
3.3 low
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Red Hat
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBEXIF-325985
  • published 8 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 20 Feb 2019
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Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-20030 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libexif to version 0.6.21-2+deb8u3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libexif package and not the libexif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 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.