CVE-2021-32815: Denial of service due to assertion failure in crwimage_int.cpp

Impact

An assertion failure was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.4 and earlier. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The assertion failure is triggered when Exiv2 is used to modify the metadata of a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file.

Note that this bug is only triggered when modifying the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as fi.

Patches

The bug is fixed in version v0.27.5.

References

Regression test and bug fix: #1739

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