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Debian: DSA-1487-1 Critical: Libexif Code Execution Risk - DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2008
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Mitigations for security flaws in the libexif library designed to avert denial of service or unauthorized code execution incidents triggered by the processing of corrupt image files.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the EXIF parsing code of the libexif library, which can lead to denial of service or the xecution of arbitrary code if a user is ...

Summary


Victor Stinner discovered an integer overflow, which may result in
denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-6351

Meder Kydyraliev discovered an infinite loop, which may result in
denial of service.

CVE-2007-6352

Victor Stinner discovered an integer overflow, which may result
in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary
code.

This update also fixes two potential NULL pointer deferences.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.6.13-5etch2.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been
fixed in 0.6.9-6sarge2.


We recommend that you upgrade your libexif packages.

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 i...

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