When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out-of-memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-02-24T13:11:54

Updated: 2024-08-03T04:13:56.973Z

Reserved: 2022-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-24614

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-02-24T15:15:29.750

Modified: 2022-03-02T18:29:28.907

Link: CVE-2022-24614

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-02-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-24614 - Bugzilla