CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-34334

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-08-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.

Affected configurations

• exiv2 exiv2 (<= 0.27.4) • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References