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TITLE:
Exiv2 EXIF Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28132

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28132/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Exiv2 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7039/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Exiv2, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially
compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in
src/exif.cpp. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via
specially crafted EXIF files and may allow execution of arbitrary
code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.15. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository.
http://dev.robotbattle.com/~cvsuser/cgi-bin/ns_viewcvs.cgi/exiv2/trunk/src/exif.cpp?rev=1346&r1=1231&r2=1346

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Red Hat credits Meder Kydyraliev.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425921

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