Denial of Service Vulnerability in libexif Affects Multiple Versions
CVE-2007-6351

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Libexif Project

Status
Libexif
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 December 2007

What is CVE-2007-6351?

A vulnerability in libexif allows attackers to exploit crafted EXIF tags in image files, leading to a denial of service by causing infinite recursion in the exif_loader_write function. This can compromise system functionality, making it unresponsive when exposed to specially crafted EXIF metadata.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26976
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-15.xml
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https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2068
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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