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CVE-2024-25112: Exiv2 has a denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder

October 17, 2024 (updated October 23, 2024)

A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vulnerable function, QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder, was new in v0.28.0 (see https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/2337), so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are not affected. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file.

References

  • github.com/Exiv2/exiv2
  • github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/2337
  • github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-crmj-qh74-2r36
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-crmj-qh74-2r36
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/exiv2/PYSEC-2024-107.yaml
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-25112

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 0.16.0 before 0.16.1

Fixed versions

  • 0.16.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.16.1 or above.

Impact 5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

Source file

pypi/exiv2/CVE-2024-25112.yml

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