GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2022-24614
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2022-03-07
Affected packages
• Maven com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor: < 2.18.0 → fixed in 2.18.0
Description
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2022-24614 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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24614 advisory
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561 web
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/pull/570 web
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/commit/85ec243df54133a87f9d928d2278595f52b07519 web
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor package
- https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/releases/tag/2.18.0 web