Vulnerabilites related to Flexera Software LLC - libexif
cve-2018-20030
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-02-20 17:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:01
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
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