[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#1112506: exiv2: CVE-2025-55304

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: exiv2
Version: 0.28.5+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for exiv2.

CVE-2025-55304[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-55304
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55304
[1] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues/3333
[2] https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-m54q-mm9w-fp6g

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore