KDE Security Advisory: JPEG-EXIF Meta Information DoS vulnerability Original Release Date: 2006-11-29 URL: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt 0. References None. 1. Systems affected: kdegraphics as shipped with KDE 3.1.0 up to including 3.5.5. 2. Overview: The JPEG kfile-info plugin, which is used in several KDE applications for showing image metainformation (for example the embedded EXIF information) is vulnerable to a endless recursion EXIF parsing bug. This particular issue was reported by Marcus Meissner from SUSE Security. 3. Impact: On a regular Linux system, this can cause the process that launched the plugin to crash. If ulimits have been removed, it can cause the machine run out of memory. 4. Solution: Source code patches have been made available which fix these vulnerabilities. Contact your OS vendor / binary package provider for information about how to obtain updated binary packages. 5. Patch: A patch for KDE 3.1.0 - KDE 3.5.5 is available from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches : 1ce5fb77aff8f97ed21da046c1385000 post-3.5.5-kdegraphics.diff