GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g
Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata
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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 v0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in `jpegBase::readMetadata()` can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. 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 jpg image file.
### Patches
The bug is fixed in version v0.28.6.
### References
Issue: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333
Fixes: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335 (main branch), https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345 (0.28.x branch)
### For more information
Please see our [security policy](https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/policy) for information about Exiv2 security.
References
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