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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!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 &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>