CVE-2005-0664

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the EXIF library (libexif) 0.6.9 does not properly validate the structure of the EXIF tags, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a JPEG image with a crafted EXIF tag.

Affected products

Libexif: 0.6.9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17705
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013398
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102041-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-709
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-17.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:064
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-300.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0240
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2565
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7152
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10832
https://usn.ubuntu.com/91-1/

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