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CVE-2007-6356

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-12-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

exiftags before 1.01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via recursive IFD references in the EXIF data in a JPEG image.

Affected products

• Aertherwide Exiftags: through 1.01

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202354
• http://johnst.org/sw/exiftags/CHANGES
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28110
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28268
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29580
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-17.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1533
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26892
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4251
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202354
• http://johnst.org/sw/exiftags/CHANGES
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28110

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