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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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.112

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool (USN-5043-1) libexiv2-14_0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11_i386.debLinux
EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool (USN-5043-1) libexiv2-14_0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11_amd64.debLinux
EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool (USN-5043-1) libexiv2-27_0.27.2-8ubuntu2.6_amd64.debLinux
EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool (USN-5043-1) libexiv2-27_0.27.3-3ubuntu1.5_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4252-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) exiv2-debuginfo-0.23-12.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4252-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) exiv2-debugsource-0.23-12.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4252-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libexiv2-12-0.23-12.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2022:4252-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 ) libexiv2-12-debuginfo-0.23-12.18.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234