kamadak/exif-rs · Security
kamadak-exif vulnerable to Infinite loop when parsing PNG files
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-21235
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Impact
Reader::read_from_container can cause an infinite loop when a crafted PNG file is given.
Patches
Version 0.5.3 includes the fix.
Workarounds
No workaround is available. Applications that do not pass files with the PNG signature to Reader::read_from_container are not affected.
References
- https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21235
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open an issue in github.com/kamadak/exif-rs
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
References
- https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21235 ↗
- https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/1b05eab57e484cd7d576d4357b9cda7fdc57df8c ↗
- https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/f21df24616ea611c5d5d0e0e2f8042eb74d5ff48 ↗
- https://crates.io/crates/kamadak-exif ↗
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0143.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2 ↗