GHSA-crmj-qh74-2r36
Exiv2 has a denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vulnerable function, `QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder`, was new in v0.28.0 (see https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/2337), so Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are _not_ affected. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file.
### Patches
The bug is fixed in version v0.28.2.
### For more information
Please see our [security policy](https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/policy) for information about Exiv2 security.
### Credit
This bug was found by [OSS-Fuzz](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.