CVE-2026-85715: ExifReader: DoS via Crafted HEIC/AVIF iloc Box - Memory Exhaustion
ExifReader 4.41.0 is vulnerable to denial of service through a crafted HEIC or AVIF file with a malicious iloc box. When offsetSize, lengthSize, and baseOffsetSize are set to zero in the iloc header, the extent-parsing loop allocates an unbounded number of JavaScript objects - up to itemCount × extentCount (65535 × 65535 = 4.3 billion) - without advancing the buffer offset. A 652-byte file causes 400MB of heap growth; a 6KB file exhausts all system memory and crashes the Node.js process with a JavaScript heap out-of-memory error.
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