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Debian: New exiftags packages fix several vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Debian Inadequate EXIF property validation could lead to invalid memory accesses if executed on a maliciously crafted image, potentially including heap corruption and the execution of arbitrary code.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1533-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                           Devin Carraway
March 27, 2008                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : exiftags
Vulnerability  : insufficient input sanitizing
Problem type   : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2007-6354 CVE-2007-6355 CVE-2007-6356
Debian Bug     : 457062

Christian Schmid and Meder Kydyraliev (Google Security) discovered a
number of vulnerabilities in exiftags, a utility for extracting EXIF
metadata from JPEG images. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identified the following three problems:

CVE-2007-6354

    Inadequate EXIF property validation could lead to invalid memory
    accesses if executed on a maliciously crafted image, potentially
    including heap corruption and the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-6355
   
    Flawed data validation could lead to integer overflows, causing 
    other invalid memory accesses, also with the potential for memory
    corruption or arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2007-6356

    Cyclical EXIF image file directory (IFD) references could cause
    a denial of service (infinite loop).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.98-1.1+etch1.

The old stable distribution (sarge) cannot be fixed synchronously
with the Etch version due to a technical limitation in the Debian
archive management scripts.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.01-0.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your exiftags package.


Debian 4.0 (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:      577 7b8743189acd9b4c0a7a25cabb5b753d
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:     5128 2f82244bd73046f31b07e77a7381dd15
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    50195 5a8a4057c4dac1d765da5f9ef4527bdf

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    62970 e481f4f8ce70b25a648a2d3678d48e07

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    57924 a5a6906e8d05beeffc763379a9c45ba2

arm architecture (ARM)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    56278 b06bf3f7722f034096719c7153fae5bd

i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    52558 ceed89333fd99a11d26765390ae35871

ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    75164 ca893189af6fe68536774bac7dd357a1

mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    61010 a5415b5fb389903c20c431a245fcb3fb

mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    60064 2961a652e3cb269a0671fe2281b2f017

powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    54734 23a4389bb781e0a054c1687986ac1b1a

s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    58988 38bf328294b2afe633ef99a5b97f3f1e

sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exiftags/exiftags_0.98-1.1+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    56132 d2e1cd3190fe528527beaacc2ef6be3f


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
 
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