CVE-2022-24614: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

February 25, 2022 (updated March 8, 2022)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-4v6p-cxf9-98rf
github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24614

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