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Ubuntu: 824-1 Critical: PHP Denial of Service Due to JPEG Parsing

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Calendar Grey August 24, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
From Ubuntu versions 8.04 to 9.04, a security vulnerability in PHP affects JPEG file handling, risking remote denial of service attacks and system stability.
It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle certain malformed JPEG images when being parsed by the Exif module

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security advisory denial of service php ubuntu security notice jpeg parsing exif module

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php5 vulnerability

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