Debian 3.1: DSA-1309-1 Critical: Libexif Integer Overflow
debian
June 16, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in libexif, a library to parse EXIF
files, which allows denial of service and possible execution of arbitary
code via malformed EXIF data.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the old-stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.6.9-6sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libexif (0.6.9-6sarge1) package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 4786 7f1c3acc1bd7a5cbba3d5902243641f3
Size/MD5 checksum: 591 42d25baee97586f3ea1498a8f48ccf4a
Size/MD5 checksum: 520956 0aa142335a8a00c32bb6c7...
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