Gentoo: 200701-06 Critical: GNOME gedit Security Flaw Exploit

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of Service Date: January 12, 2007 Bugs: #155949 ID: 200701-05

Synopsis ======= The KDE kfile JPEG info plugin of kdegraphics could enter an endless loop leading to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= The KDE kfile-info JPEG plugin provides meta-information about JPEG files.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins < 3.5.5-r1 >= 3.5.5-r1
========== Marcus Meissner of the SUSE security team discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in the code processing EXIF information in the kfile JPEG info plugin.
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