<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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>