Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Libexif. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1761

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

a72ed5f5da3870cad1911c3aeaf7da70c9617178 SRPMS/libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6.src.rpm
a72ed5f5da3870cad1911c3aeaf7da70c9617178 noarch/libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6.src.rpm
9e0bc0e5d27ad0146d3d8378b4cdda784f38cbeb ppc/libexif-devel-0.6.15-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
f15e10ca2f053e94603e603ad641be5389696d23 ppc/libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
d7e02d9235bf50cb0c18d04f353927b01b27d2d3 ppc/debug/libexif-debuginfo-0.6.15-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
cce426e4e62fe173799581698f7f3e756b251cf5 x86_64/debug/libexif-debuginfo-0.6.15-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
c03bea0a6b7e8f253a6876e063c2b15e288898f6 x86_64/libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
84c6c79200b570287620ea3d36d3f29a07cfe075 x86_64/libexif-devel-0.6.15-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
b6fe4592d0c5a840cedbb8f6009ceb69ba07b2c7 i386/libexif-devel-0.6.15-1.fc6.i386.rpm
253a835d978fb06bdde8e49472313a99e3aa3df3 i386/libexif-0.6.15-1.fc6.i386.rpm
8b2d63cc52c6ebd1d2ff751f6fdcb4eb086420ed i386/debug/libexif-debuginfo-0.6.15-1.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2135
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-June/msg00150.html

ChangeLog

2007-06-12 : Initial release

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