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Exiv2 EXIF Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28132
Release Date: 2007-12-18
Last Update: 2008-01-10
Popularity: 4,683 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Exiv2 0.x

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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.

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