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Debian: DSA-2900-1 Urgent: jbigkit Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Alert

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Florian Weimer of the Red Hat product security team discovered multiple buffer overflows in jbigkit, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when processing malformed i...
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Summary

Florian Weimer of the Red Hat product security team discovered multiple
buffer overflows in jbigkit, which could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code when processing malformed images.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0-2+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your jbigkit packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: jbigkit
CVE ID: CVE-2013-6369

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