DSA 709-1: New libexif packages fix arbitrary code execution
Posted on: 04/15/2005 10:16 AM
New libexif packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 709-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 15th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : libexif Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0664 Debian Bug : 298464
Sylvain Defresne discovered a buffer overflow in libexif, a library that parses EXIF files (such as JPEG files with extra tags). This bug could be exploited to crash the application and maybe to execute arbitrary code as well.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.0-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.9-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your libexif package.
Upgrade Instructions ---------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------