Bug 425551 (CVE-2007-6351)

Summary: CVE-2007-6351 libexif infinite recursion flaw (DoS)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly
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Bug Depends On: 425621, 425631, 425641, 425671, 425681, 833926    
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Upstream patch taken from CVS none

Description Josh Bressers 2007-12-14 22:10:42 UTC
An infinite recursion flaw was found in libexif.  This could be leveraged by an
attacker to crash an application using libexif to process image data content.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-12-14 22:10:42 UTC
Created attachment 289531 [details]
Upstream patch taken from CVS

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2007-12-19 16:55:07 UTC
Fixed in affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1165.html

Comment 7 Red Hat Product Security 2008-01-11 17:12:27 UTC
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1165.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2007-4608
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-4667