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Ubuntu: 7.10 USN-541-1 Essential: JPEG Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in Ubuntu's flac could let malefactors run code or trigger a service interruption. Update strongly advised.
Sean de Regge discovered that flac did not properly perform bounds checking in many situations

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security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu flac bounds checking

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-540-1 November 13, 2007

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security advisory denial of service code execution Ubuntu flac bounds checking

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