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A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.", "title": "Vulnerability description" }, { "category": "general", "text": "The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.", "title": "CVSS score applicability" } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "Ubuntu-18:exiv2-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+tuxcare.els2.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:exiv2-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-14-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+tuxcare.els2.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-14-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-dev-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+tuxcare.els2.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-dev-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11.amd64", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-doc-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+tuxcare.els2.all", "Ubuntu-18:libexiv2-doc-0:0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11.all" ] }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "Canonical URL", "url": "https://cve.tuxcare.com/els/cve/CVE-2025-55304" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333", "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335", "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3335" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345", "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/pull/3345" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g", "url": "https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g" } ], "release_date": "2025-08-29T15:15:00Z", "remediations": [ { "category": "no_fix_planned", "date": "2026-08-18T14:37:05.208924Z", "details": "This issue is a local, user‑interaction denial of service in Exiv2’s ICC‑profile parser that only causes prolonged processing in the Exiv2‑invoking process, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. Exploitation requires a crafted JPEG to be opened by an application that explicitly calls Exiv2 to read metadata; operating systems and common server services do not invoke Exiv2 by default, so there is no remote trigger surface and the blast radius is limited to that application. 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