CVE-2025-55304

Description

Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. 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.

Why is this CVE low priority?

Resource consumption issue that has been rated low by upstream developers

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
exiv2	25.10 questing	Fixed 0.28.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 0.27.5-3ubuntu1.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.27.2-8ubuntu2.7+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.11+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.7+esm5

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
exiv2	Upstream: e5bf22e Upstream: b7f153f

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8103-1
Exiv2 vulnerabilities
18 March 2026