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libexif — security advisory
An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data could lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time for decoding EXIF data.
- Products
- libexif
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.6.21-9
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13114
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in libexif before 0.6.22. An unrestricted size in handling Canon EXIF MakerNote data could lead to consumption of large amounts of compute time for decoding EXIF data.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13114
libexif
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-9
libexif
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-9
libexif
Fixed versions: 0.6.21-9
Complete source record
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