Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in exiftags, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
exiftags Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28110
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28110/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
exiftags 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/16968/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in exiftags, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors when processing Exif
data and can be exploited to cause an infinite loop or buffer
overflows.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.01. Other
applications that use the vulnerable application may also be
affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.01.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
* Christian Schmid
* Meder Kydyraliev, Google Security Team
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://johnst.org/sw/exiftags/CHANGES
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