Ubuntu Security Notice USN-91-1
7th March, 2005
libexif vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Sylvain Defresne discovered that the EXIF library did not properly
validate the structure of the EXIF tags. By tricking a user to load an
image with a malicious EXIF tag, an attacker could exploit this to
crash the process using the library, or even execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the process.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- libexif10
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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