CVE-2018-20030

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20030
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20030.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20030
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-02-20T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-27T04:03:43.773558Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An error when processing the EXIFIFDINTEROPERABILITY and EXIFIFDEXIF tags within libexif version 0.6.21 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libexif/exif

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexif/exif
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Git / github.com/libexif/libexif

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexif/libexif
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89

Affected versions

Other

cvs-migration
libexif-0_5_7-rc2
libexif-0_5_7-rc3
libexif-0_5_7-rc4
libexif-0_5_7-release
libexif-0_5_9-release
libexif-0_6_12-release
libexif-0_6_14-release
libexif-0_6_15-release
libexif-0_6_16-release
libexif-0_6_17-release
libexif-0_6_18-release
libexif-0_6_19-release
libexif-0_6_20-release
libexif-0_6_21-release
libexif-before-0_6_0-api-change

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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        "target": {
            "file": "libexif/exif-data.c",
            "function": "exif_data_load_data_content"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/6aa11df549114ebda520dde4cdaea2f9357b2c89"
    },
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        "id": "CVE-2018-20030-2195919d",
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        "target": {
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