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
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