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| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
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| <glsa id="200701-05"> |
| <title>KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of Service</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| The KDE kfile JPEG info plugin of kdegraphics could enter an endless loop |
| leading to a Denial of Service. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">kdegraphics-kfile-plugins</product> |
| <announced>January 12, 2007</announced> |
| <revised>January 12, 2007: 01</revised> |
| <bug>155949</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">3.5.5-r1</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.5-r1</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| The KDE kfile-info JPEG plugin provides meta-information about JPEG |
| files. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Marcus Meissner of the SUSE security team discovered a stack overflow |
| vulnerability in the code processing EXIF information in the kfile JPEG |
| info plugin. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted JPEG |
| image with a KDE application like Konqueror or digiKam, leading to a |
| Denial of Service by an infinite recursion. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All KDE users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.5.5-r1"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6297">CVE-2006-6297</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:45:31 +0000"> |
| jaervosz |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:52:12 +0000"> |
| falco |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:14:10 +0000"> |
| falco |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |