Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-24614US | medium5.5 | — | ||
When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for ve… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractorPACKAGE
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/commit/85ec243df54133a87f9d928d2278595f52b07519WEB
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561WEB
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/pull/570WEB
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/releases/tag/2.18.0WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24614ADVISORY
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