Exiv2 0.16 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero and application crash) via a zero value in Nikon lens information in the metadata of an image, related to "pretty printing" and the RationalValue::toLong function.

This update of exiv2 solves a denial of service bug that can be triggered by using crafted metadata. (CVE-2008-2696)

Meder Kydyraliev discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle certain EXIF headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly executing arbitrary code with user privileges.
(CVE-2007-6353)

Joakim Bildrulle discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle Nikon lens EXIF information. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2696).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A flaw was found in exiv2 that would cause exiv2, or applications linked to libexiv2, to crash on image files with certain metadata in the image (CVE-2008-2696).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

This update of libexiv2 solves a denial of service bug that can be triggered by using crafted metadata. (CVE-2008-2696)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
39958	openSUSE Security Update : exiv2 (exiv2-267)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
37662	Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : exiv2 vulnerabilities (USN-655-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
36938	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : exiv2 (MDVSA-2008:119)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium
34509	openSUSE 10 Security Update : libexiv2 (libexiv2-5707)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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