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TITLE:
Exiv2 Nicon Lens Information Printing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30519

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30519/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Exiv2, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to crash an application using the
library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a floating point exception within
the pretty printing functionality when processing certain Nicon
camera lens information. This can be exploited to crash an
application linked against the Exiv2 library when a image containing
specially-crafted metadata is processed.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.16. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.17.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Joakim Bildrulle

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.exiv2.org/changelog.html

http://dev.robotbattle.com/bugs/view.php?id=0000546

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