Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : jasper vulnerability (USN-501-1)

It was discovered that Jasper did not correctly handle corrupted JPEG2000 images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPG, a remote attacker could cause the application using libjasper to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...