Fedora Core 6 : libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6 (2007-548)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25469

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update to the latest upstream release fixes a number of bugs, among them a possible integer overflow in the exif_data_load_data_entry function (CVE-2007-2645), which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF data.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libexif, libexif-debuginfo and / or libexif-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9bc62590

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25469

File Name: fedora_2007-548.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/12/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libexif, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libexif-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libexif-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-548