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Gentoo: GLSA-200706-02 Normal: libpng Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Integer overflow vulnerability in libexif poses a risk for Gentoo users; prompt upgrade is necessary to mitigate potential exploitation of this issue.
libexif fails to handle Exif (EXchangeable Image File) data inputs, making it vulnerable to an integer overflow.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200706-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libexif: Integer overflow vulnerability Date: June 05, 2007 Bugs: #178081 ID: 200706-01

Synopsis ======= libexif fails to handle Exif (EXchangeable Image File) data inputs, making it vulnerable to an integer overflow.
Background ========= libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif data.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libexif < 0.6.15 >= 0.6.15
========== Victor Stinner reported an integer overflow in the exif_data_load_data_entry() function from file exif-data.c while handling Exif data.
Impact ===== An attacker could...

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