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USN-2060-1: libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

19 December 2013

libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Details

Michal Zalewski discovered that libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo incorrectly
handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue with
a specially-crafted JPEG file to possibly expose sensitive information.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

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