Re: CFD: eXIF 2017-0207

Phil Harvey <phil-CIeU6mJ2MbMd166Dz3SrqbDks+cytr/[email protected]> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:29:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On February 10, 2017 at 12:00:18 PM EST, John Bowler  wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that one of the JPEG samples (one of mine IRC) has an
> EXIF tag which exiv2 reports as containing offsets outside the chunk.
> I suspect this may be related to the other unusual practice of storing
> a "preview" image after the EOI of the main (IFD[0]) image.  Are you
> aware of this?  (Obviously it can happen in a maliciously generated
> EXIF or TIFF, but it seems to be happening deliberately without real
> malicious intent.)

If you gave me a link to the sample I could take a look, but it is not uncommon to have preview pointers referencing data outside the EXIF segment.

	- Phil
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