Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 9, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024
Denial of service due to integer overflow in loop counter
CVE-2021-34334
Description
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read 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. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
6- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FMDT4PJB7P43WSOM3TRQIY3J33BAFVVE/mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UYGDELIFFJWKUU7SO3QATCIXCZJERGAC/mitrevendor-advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-06mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00004.htmlmitremailing-list
- github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/1766mitre
- github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-hqjh-hpv8-8r9pmitre
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