DSA-709-1 libexif -- buffer overflow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.