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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-4168

Published: 14/06/2007 Updated: 17/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the exif_data_load_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c in Libexif prior to 0.6.16 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via an image with many EXIF components, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2006-4168: Integer overflow vulnerability fixed in 0.6.16
Debian Bug report logs - #430012 CVE-2006-4168: Integer overflow vulnerability fixed in 0616 Package: libexif12; Maintainer for libexif12 is Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for libexif12 is src:libexif (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Stefan Fritsch <sf@debianorg&g ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: libexif vulnerability
Sean Larsson discovered that libexif did not correctly verify the size of EXIF components By tricking a user into opening an image with specially crafted EXIF headers, a remote attacker could cause the application using libexif to execute arbitrary code with user privileges ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=543http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=515385http://secunia.com/advisories/25642https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1482http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1310http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-09.xmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:128https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0501.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_39_libexif.htmlhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-478-1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24461http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018240http://secunia.com/advisories/25674http://secunia.com/advisories/25645http://secunia.com/advisories/25746http://secunia.com/advisories/25768http://secunia.com/advisories/25820http://secunia.com/advisories/25842http://secunia.com/advisories/25932http://secunia.com/advisories/26083http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2165http://secunia.com/advisories/25717/http://osvdb.org/35379https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34851https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9349http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472046/100/0/threadedhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430012https://usn.ubuntu.com/478-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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