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Debian: DSA-3138-1 Critical: JasPer Heap Overflow and Memory Flaws

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Calendar Grey January 25, 2015
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Debian has released advisory DSA-3145-3, pertaining to a critical buffer overflow and memory corruption in the libpng library, urging users to update immediately.
An off-by-one flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2014-8157), and an unrestricted stack memory use flaw (CVE-2014-8158) were found in JasPer, a library for manipulat...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.900.1-13+deb7u3.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and the unstable
distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your jasper packages.

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



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Package: jasper
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8157 CVE-2014-8158

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