CVE-2018-20030

high

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4358-1/

https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-28/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00025.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00016.html

https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00000.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-02-20

Updated: 2020-06-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H