CVE-2021-21235 (GCVE-0-2021-21235)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-06 01:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
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EPSS
VEX
Title
Infinite loop in parsing PNG files in
Summary
kamadak-exif is an exif parsing library written in pure Rust. In kamadak-exif version 0.5.2, there is an infinite loop in parsing crafted PNG files. Specifically, reader::read_from_container can cause an infinite loop when a crafted PNG file is given. This is fixed in version 0.5.3. No workaround is available. Applications that do not pass files with the PNG signature to Reader::read_from_container are not affected.
Severity
5.7 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
3 references
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| https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://crates.io/crates/kamadak-exif | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/f21df24… | x_refsource_MISC |
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