Description
metadata-extractor up to 2.16.0 can throw various uncaught exceptions while parsing a specially crafted JPEG file, which could result in an application crash. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use metadata-extractor library.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/561
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