CVE-2024-25112

Exiv2: Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 13, 2024

Updated · June 26, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the Exiv2 command-line utility. The denial of service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted video file. An unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack.

Statement

The Exiv2 versions before v0.28 are not affected. An older version of Exiv2 is present in RHEL. Hence, RHEL is not affected.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion