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Gentoo: 200712-15 Normal: Libexif Multiple Issues Detected

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Two vulnerabilities in libexif possibly allow for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-15
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: libexif: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: December 29, 2007
      Bugs: #202350
        ID: 200712-15


Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities in libexif possibly allow for the execution of
arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

Background
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libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from
images. Exif, the Exchangeable image file format, specifies the
addition of metadata tags to JPEG, TIFF and RIFF files.

Affected packages
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     Package             /   Vulnerable   /                 Unaffected
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  1  media-libs/libexif      < 0.6.16-r1                  >= 0.6.16-r1

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