CVE-2018-20030 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Software LLC Libexif

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCWE-20 — Improper Input ValidationCWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion10 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Libexif Project LibexifFlexera Software LLC Libexif
Timeline
PublishedFeb 20
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Debianlibexif_project/libexif< 0.6.21-5.1+3
▶Ubuntulibexif_project/libexif< 0.6.21-2ubuntu0.2+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-9fxq-h6qr-qghc: An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0↗2022-05-13
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OSV
libexif vulnerabilities↗2020-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-20030: An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0↗2019-02-20
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CVEList
CVE-2018-20030: An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags within libexif version 0↗2019-02-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libexif vulnerabilities↗2020-05-13
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Red Hat
libexif: Input validation issue resulting in a denial of service↗2018-12-20
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Debian
CVE-2018-20030: libexif - An error when processing the EXIF_IFD_INTEROPERABILITY and EXIF_IFD_EXIF tags wi...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20030 libexif: Input validation issue resulting in a denial of service↗2019-01-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20030 libexif: Input validation issue resulting in a denial of service [fedora-all]↗2019-01-07
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