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Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04: USN-471-1 Critical: libexif Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Revision to mitigate libexif vulnerability causing denial of service through specially designed EXIF headers in particular versions of Ubuntu.
Victor Stinner discovered that libexif did not correctly validate the size of some EXIF header fields

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu image processing libexif header validation

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-471-1 June 11, 2007

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security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu image processing libexif header validation

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