5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-34334

Published: 09/08/2021 Updated: 22/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 version 0.27.4 and previous versions is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #992706 exiv2: CVE-2021-34334 Package: src:exiv2; Maintainer for src:exiv2 is Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 15:21:04 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in versi ...
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files An infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv ...
An infinite loop is triggered when Exiv2 version 0274 and earlier is used to read the metadata of a crafted image file An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file ...