FKIE_CVE-2021-21235

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-01-06 02:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:35
Severity
5.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
kamadak-exif is an exif parsing library written in pure Rust. In kamadak-exif version 0.5.2, there is an infinite loop in parsing crafted PNG files. Specifically, reader::read_from_container can cause an infinite loop when a crafted PNG file is given. This is fixed in version 0.5.3. No workaround is available. Applications that do not pass files with the PNG signature to Reader::read_from_container are not affected.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://crates.io/crates/kamadak-exifProduct, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/f21df24616ea611c5d5d0e0e2f8042eb74d5ff48Patch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crates.io/crates/kamadak-exifProduct, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/f21df24616ea611c5d5d0e0e2f8042eb74d5ff48Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kamadak-exif_project kamadak-exif 0.5.2
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