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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 &quot;&gt;=kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.5.5-r1&quot;</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>