CVE-2024-25112

unknown

Published 2024-10-17 · Modified 2024-10-23

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

—

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vulnerable function, `QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder`, was new in v0.28.0, so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are _not_ affected. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file. This bug is fixed in version v0.28.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.28.3+dfsg-2`
sid	Fixed	`0.28.3+dfsg-2`
forky	Fixed	`0.28.3+dfsg-2`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	exiv2	`>=0.16.0,<0.16.1`	`0.16.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.