GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2

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    GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2

    Published: 6 Oct 2022Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary: kamadak-exif vulnerable to Infinite loop when parsing PNG files

    Details: ### Impact Reader::read_from_container can cause an infinite loop when a crafted PNG file is given. ### Patches Version 0.5.3 includes the fix. ### Workarounds No workaround is available. Applications that do not pass files with the PNG signature to Reader::read_from_container are not affected. ### References * <https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2> * <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21235> ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [github.com/kamadak/exif-rs](https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs)

    References: https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-px9g-8hgv-jvg2, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21235, https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/1b05eab57e484cd7d576d4357b9cda7fdc57df8c, https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs/commit/f21df24616ea611c5d5d0e0e2f8042eb74d5ff48, https://crates.io/crates/kamadak-exif, https://github.com/kamadak/exif-rs, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0143.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kamadak-exif

    Purl: pkg:cargo/kamadak-exif

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0.5.2
    Fixed -0.5.3

    Affected versions

    0.5.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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