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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-13114: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-13114: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/21/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data could lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time for decoding EXIF data.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libexif

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