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Ubuntu: USN-4358-1 (CVE-2018-20030): libexif vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4358-1 (CVE-2018-20030): libexif vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/20/2019
Created
06/26/2020
Added
06/24/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexif12

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