Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in metadata-extractor
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Feb 25, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Aug 26, 2024
Package
Affected versions
< 2.18.0
Patched versions
2.18.0
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 24, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Feb 25, 2022
Reviewed
Mar 7, 2022
Last updated
Aug 26, 2024
Credits
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cpropps-sysdig Analyst
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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