Bug 2058765 (CVE-2022-24613)

Summary:	CVE-2022-24613 metadata-extractor: Various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, alazarot, anstephe, cedric.olivier, chazlett, emingora, extras-orphan, gmalinko, ibek, janstey, java-sig-commits, jnethert, jochrist, jolee, jrokos, jschatte, jwon, kverlaen, mnovotny, pantinor, pdelbell, pjindal, puntogil, rguimara
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Bug Depends On:	2068598
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2022-02-25 19:43:13 UTC

metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file, which could result in an application crash. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561

Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2022-03-25 18:41:23 UTC

Created metadata-extractor2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2068598]