CVE-2007-6353: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in exif.cpp in exiv2 library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted EXIF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only; version 8.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.1 only; version 4.0 only
• EXIV2 EXIV2: before 0.16 (fixed in 0.16)

Published 2007-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.