CVE-2018-20030

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20030
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-20 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-06-11 15:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libexif Project Libexif 0.6.21 All All All
Application Libexif Project Libexif 0.6.21 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2214-1] libexif security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0793-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Secunia Research Advisories | Flexera MISC secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2222-1] libexif security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Improve deep recursion detection in exif_data_load_data_content. · libexif/libexif@6aa11df · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-4358-1: libexif vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0264-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296078 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 16.4.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 500291 Alpine Linux Security Update for libexif
  • 690461 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for libexif (cff0b2e2-0716-11eb-9e5d-08002728f74c)
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