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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2900-1 jbigkit -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Apr 2014

Affected Packages:

jbigkit

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 743960.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-6369.

More information:

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.