USN-2060-1: libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

Publication date

19 December 2013

Overview

libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo could be made to expose sensitive information.


Packages

Details

Michal Zalewski discovered that libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo incorrectly
handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue with
a specially-crafted JPEG file to possibly expose sensitive information.

Michal Zalewski discovered that libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo incorrectly
handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue with
a specially-crafted JPEG file to possibly expose sensitive information.

Update instructions

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