CVE-2025-55304

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55304
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-55304.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-55304
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2025-08-29T15:15:35Z
Modified
2025-08-30T00:05:02.149660Z
Summary
[none]
Details

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / exiv2

Package

Name
exiv2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/exiv2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.27.3-3
0.27.3-3+deb11u1
0.27.3-3+deb11u2
0.27.3-3.1
0.27.5-1
0.27.5-2
0.27.5-3
0.27.5-4
0.27.6-1
0.28.0+dfsg-1
0.28.0+dfsg-2
0.28.0+dfsg-3
0.28.0+dfsg-4
0.28.1+dfsg-1
0.28.1+dfsg-2
0.28.1+dfsg-3
0.28.2+dfsg-1
0.28.3+dfsg-1
0.28.3+dfsg-2
0.28.4+dfsg-1
0.28.4+dfsg-2
0.28.5+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / exiv2

Package

Name
exiv2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/exiv2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.27.6-1
0.28.0+dfsg-1
0.28.0+dfsg-2
0.28.0+dfsg-3
0.28.0+dfsg-4
0.28.1+dfsg-1
0.28.1+dfsg-2
0.28.1+dfsg-3
0.28.2+dfsg-1
0.28.3+dfsg-1
0.28.3+dfsg-2
0.28.4+dfsg-1
0.28.4+dfsg-2
0.28.5+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / exiv2

Package

Name
exiv2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/exiv2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.28.5+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / exiv2

Package

Name
exiv2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/exiv2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.28.5+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}