GSD-2018-20030

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
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CVE-2018-20030
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    "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.",
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