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xzgv JPEG Image Parsing Heap Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19572
Release Date: 2006-04-10
Last Update: 2006-04-21
Popularity: 7,479 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:xzgv 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1060


Description:
Andrea Barisani has reported a vulnerability in xzgv, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing JPEG files and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted JPEG image within the CMYK/YCCK colour space.

Solution:
Don't open untrusted images.

Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Andrea Barisani, Gentoo Linux

Changelog:
2006-04-21: Updated "Provided and/or discovered by" and "Description" sections.

Original Advisory:
SUSE:
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_08_sr.html

Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-10.xml


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