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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2022-24614
CVE-2022-24614:
Java vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The vulnerability CVE-2022-24614 affects metadata-extractor versions up to 2.16.0. The vulnerability was discovered in February 2022 and involves a memory allocation issue when processing specially crafted JPEG files (NVD).
Technical details
When reading a specially crafted JPEG file, metadata-extractor up to version 2.16.0 can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that ultimately leads to an out-of-memory condition. This vulnerability is related to memory handling in the application's JPEG processing functionality (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability can result in out-of-memory conditions when processing maliciously crafted JPEG files, potentially leading to denial of service in applications using the affected versions of metadata-extractor (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to a version of metadata-extractor newer than 2.16.0 which contains fixes for this vulnerability. The issue has been addressed in subsequent releases of the software (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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