Comment 0 for bug 292780

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joerg (joergfichtner) wrote :

exiv2 (0.17) crashed reproducable (e.g. when opening a Nikon-Raw-File (*NEF), which has been modified by NikonCaptureNX). All software-programms using exiv2 (such as digikam, ufraw, GIMP) crash during startup or during loading these files , or get stability-problems (Gimp, opening Nikon-Raw-Files via "gimp-ufraw")

Denial of Service possible

exiv2 (0.17.1) do not have these problems.

from changelog of exiv2 (www.exiv2.org)
changes from version 0.17 to 0.17.1
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* Exiv2 library
 - 0000560: [xmp] Can't delete (last) XMP tag. (Reported by SerGioGioGio)
 - 0000559: [exif] Crash when extracting Exif orientation flag from Kodak
            DCR raw file. (Reported by Gilles Caulier)
 - 0000558: [jpeg i/o] "Warning: JPEG format error, rc = 5" for most of my
            JPEG files. (Reported with patch by Marcus Holland-Moritz)
 - 0000552: [build environment] Build failure under Mac OS X 10.3.9
            (Reported by Marius Schamschula)
 - [exif] Fixed several potential division by 0 bugs.