Slackware 2007-164-01: Essential Libexif Crash Fix Update Released
slackware
June 14, 2007
New libexif packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a crash and potential security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: l/libexif-0.6.16-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to libexif-0.6.16. An integer overflow in libexif can crash applications that use the library on malformed images. The upstream advisory indicates that this flaw could also be used to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user, but no exploit is known (by us) to exist among iDefense's researchers or in the wild. But, as a crash bug and heap overflow one must suppose that the possibility exists. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4168 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/patches/packages/libexif-0.6.16-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 10.2 package:
cd7fae377395a5b9538a702a7ff23afc libexif-0.6.16-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package:
c10f21ab97a858ac1183e6a2cc916dd9 libexif-0.6.16-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
151902aeb8486e2884afd3bb84e48535 libexif-0.6.16-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg libexif-0.6.16-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz
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