Debian Security Advisory
DSA-709-1 libexif -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 15 Apr 2005
- Affected Packages:
- libexif
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 298464.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0664. - More information:
-
Sylvain Defresne discovered a buffer overflow in libexif, a library that parses EXIF files (such as JPEG files with extra tags). This bug could be exploited to crash the application and maybe to execute arbitrary code as well.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.0-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.9-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libexif package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif_0.5.0-1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif_0.5.0-1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif_0.5.0-1woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif-dev_0.5.0-1woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libe/libexif/libexif5_0.5.0-1woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.