In short
- CVE-2022-24614 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor, metadata-extractor (metadata-extractor project).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.73%, higher than 54.4% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 2.18.0 or later.
Description
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.
NVD description
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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