Bug 2391806 (CVE-2025-55304) - CVE-2025-55304 exiv2: Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing
Summary: CVE-2025-55304 exiv2: Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-55304
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2391837 2391840 2391836 2391838
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Reported: 2025-08-29 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-02 14:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-29 16:01:14 UTC 
Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.
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