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ELSA-2007-1165 Moderate:Enterprise Linux libexif security update

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ELSA-2007-1165 Moderate:Enterprise Linux libexif security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/19/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
04/11/2019

Description

Integer overflow in libexif 0.6.16 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image with crafted EXIF tags, possibly involving the exif_data_load_data_thumbnail function in exif-data.c.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libexif
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libexif-devel

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