Debian 5.0 DSA-2036-1 Critical: Jasper DoS And Heap Corruption

Besides addressing this vulnerability, this updates also addresses a
regression introduced in the security fix for CVE-2008-3521, applied
before Debian Lenny's release, that could cause errors when reading some
JPEG input files.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.900.1-5.1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.900.1-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your jasper package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

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