Integer overflow in exif.cpp in exiv2 library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted EXIF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Meder Kydyraliev discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle certain EXIF headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly executing arbitrary code with user privileges.
(CVE-2007-6353)

Joakim Bildrulle discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle Nikon lens EXIF information. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2696).

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

An integer overflow in the Exiv2 library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted EXIF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Meder Kydyraliev discovered an integer overflow in the thumbnail handling of libexif, the EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200712-16 (Exiv2: Integer overflow)

    Meder Kydyraliev (Google Security) discovered an integer overflow     vulnerability in the JpegThumbnail::setDataArea() method leading to a     heap-based buffer overflow.
  Impact :

    An attacker could entice the user of an application making use of Exiv2     or an application included in Exiv2 to load an image file with     specially crafted Exif tags, possibly resulting in the execution of     arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Specially crafted files could trigger an integer overflow in libexiv2 (CVE-2007-6353).

- Mon Dec 17 2007 Rex Dieter     <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-5

    - CVE-2007-6353 (#425922)

    - Tue Sep 18 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-4

    - -libs: -Requires: %name

    - Tue Aug 21 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-3

    - -libs subpkg to be multilib-friendlier (f8+)

    - Sat Aug 11 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-2

    - License: GPLv2+

    - Thu Jul 12 2007 Rex Dieter       <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-1

    - exiv2-0.15

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.

- Mon Dec 17 2007 Rex Dieter     <rdieter[AT]fedoraproject.org> 0.15-5

    - CVE-2007-6353 (#425922)

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
37662	Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : exiv2 vulnerabilities (USN-655-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
36426	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : exiv2 (MDVSA-2008:006)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
30066	Debian DSA-1474-1 : exiv2 - integer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
29813	GLSA-200712-16 : Exiv2: Integer overflow	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
29787	openSUSE 10 Security Update : libexiv2 (libexiv2-4850)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
29761	Fedora 7 : exiv2-0.15-5.fc7 (2007-4591)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
29757	Fedora 8 : exiv2-0.15-5.fc8 (2007-4551)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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