The return of image-based spam

After a two year absence, IBM X-Force is reporting iss.net a significant spike in image-based spam. “Since March 20th, we have been witnessing a rebirth of image-based spam. At first, we saw a small trial of image-based spam, reaching 5-10%. Then, in late April, we saw another blast this time a...

CVE-2008-1928

Buffer overflow in Imager 0.42 through 0.63 allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an image based fill in which the number of input channels is different from the number of output channels...

CVE-2006-1736

Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to trick users into downloading and saving an executable file via an image that is overlaid by a transparent image link that points to the executable, which causes...