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CVE-2018-20030 (GCVE-0-2018-20030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:01
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • DoS (Denial of Service) via CPU resource exhaustion
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Flexera Software LLC libexif Affected: 0.6.21
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Date Public
2018-10-12 00:00
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