Bug 1840350 (CVE-2020-13114) - CVE-2020-13114 libexif: unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data can lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time
Summary: CVE-2020-13114 libexif: unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote da...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2020-13114
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 1840351 1841276 1841277
Blocks: 1840352
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-26 18:54 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-11-04 03:43 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libexif 0.6.22
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Last Closed: 2020-09-29 22:01:28 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4040 0 None None None 2020-09-29 20:50:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4766 0 None None None 2020-11-04 03:43:19 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-26 18:54:15 UTC 
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.

Reference and upstream commit:
https://github.com/libexif/libexif/commit/e6a38a1a23ba94d139b1fa2cd4519fdcfe3c9bab
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-05-26 18:54:32 UTC 
Created libexif tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1840351]
Comment 2 Todd Cullum 2020-05-28 18:41:13 UTC 
Technical Summary:

In libexif/canon/exif-mnote-data-canon.c of libexif prior to 0.6.22, it is possible for an attacker to supply a specially crafted file which could cause the creation of extremely large tags, using excessive memory and causing a long loop, which could lead to denial of service. The vulnerable code is in the exif_mnote_data_canon_load() routine. The current patch in 0.6.22 keeps track of the size of tag data by making calls to mnote_canon_entry_count_values() during the loop, and bailing if it gets too large.
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:50:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4040 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4040
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-29 22:01:28 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-13114
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 03:43:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4766 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4766
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