Gentoo: 200706-09 Normal: libexif Buffer Overflow Execution Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200706-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: libexif: Buffer overflow Date: June 26, 2007 Bugs: #181922 ID: 200706-09

Synopsis ======= libexif does not properly handle image EXIF information, possibly allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving EXIF metadata from images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/libexif < 0.6.16 >= 0.6.16
========== iDefense Labs have discovered that the exif_data_load_data_entry() function in libexif/exif-data.c improperly handles integer data while working with an image with ma...