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TITLE:
libexif EXIF Information Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25235

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25235/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
libexif 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4755/

DESCRIPTION:
Victor Stinner has reported a vulnerability in libexif, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS and potentially
compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
malformed EXIF information. This can be exploited to crash an
application using the library and may allow execution of arbitrary
code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.14.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12272

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Victor Stinner

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=507447

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1716196&group_id=12272&atid=112272

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