A vulnerability has been discovered in exif which could result in denial of service.
Package | media-gfx/exif on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 0.6.22 |
Unaffected versions | >= 0.6.22 |
libexif is a library for parsing, editing and saving Exif metadata from images. exif is a small command line interface for libexif.
There is a bug in exif's XML output format which can result in a null pointer dereference when outputting crafted JPEG EXIF data.
A crafted JPEG image can trigger a denial of service in the form of a null pointer dereference.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All exif users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/exif-0.6.22"
Release date
October 31, 2022
Latest revision
October 31, 2022: 1
Severity
low
Exploitable
remote
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