Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-478-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Sean Larsson discovered that libexif did not correctly verify the size of EXIF components. By tricking a user into opening an image with specially crafted EXIF headers, a remote attacker could cause the application using libexif to execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
libexif vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-4168 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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