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Gentoo: GLSA-200712-17 Normal: Exiftags Arbitrary Code Threats

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Calendar Grey December 29, 2007
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Several security flaws in exiftags may result in unauthorized code execution or cause Denial of Service. It is recommended to apply updates.
Multiple vulnerabilities in exiftags possibly allow for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-17
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: exiftags: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: December 29, 2007
      Bugs: #202354
        ID: 200712-17


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

Background
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exiftags is a library and set of tools 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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