KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of Service

KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of Service The KDE kfile JPEG info plugin of kdegraphics could enter an endless loop leading to a Denial of Service. kdegraphics-kfile-plugins 2007-01-12 2007-01-12 155949 remote 3.5.5-r1 3.5.5-r1

The KDE kfile-info JPEG plugin provides meta-information about JPEG files.

Marcus Meissner of the SUSE security team discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in the code processing EXIF information in the kfile JPEG info plugin.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All KDE users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.5.5-r1"

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