Medium, CVSS 6.5crates.ioPublished
kamadak-exif vulnerable to Infinite loop when parsing PNG files
CVE-2021-21235 · GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2
- Affected
- crates.io kamadak-exif >= 0.5.2, <= 0.5.2
- Fixed in
- 0.5.3· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact Reader::readfromcontainer 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::readfromcontainer 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
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.5.3 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.