Description
libexif 0.6.16 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via an image file with crafted EXIF tags, possibly involving the exif_loader_write function in exif_loader.c.
Published: 2007-12-20
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 4.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1487-1 New libexif packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-6318 libexif 0.6.16 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via an image file with crafted EXIF tags, possibly involving the exif_loader_write function in exif_loader.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-654-1 libexif vulnerabilities
References
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202350 cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/42652 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28127 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28195 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28266 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28400 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28776 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32274 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-15.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1487 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:005 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1165.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485822/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26976 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019124 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-654-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4278 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425551 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425621 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425631 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39166 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2068 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6351 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9420 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6351 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00597.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00626.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Libexif Project Libexif
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:02:36.517Z

Reserved: 2007-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6351

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-12-20T02:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6351

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-6351 - Bugzilla

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