Resource Exhaustion Affecting libexif package, versions <0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (56th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBEXIF-572453
- published 21 May 2020
- disclosed 21 May 2020
Introduced: 21 May 2020
CVE-2020-13114 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04
libexif
to version 0.6.21-1ubuntu1+esm5 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data could lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time for decoding EXIF data.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-13114
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-13114
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-05
- https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/e6a38a1a23ba94d139b1fa2cd4519fdcfe3c9bab
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4396-1/