Description: Gentoo has issued an update for jpeg. This fixes a security issue, which potentially can be malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) against applications and services using the jpeg library.
The security issue is caused due to the library being compiled without enabling the "--enable-maxmem" feature. This can potentially be exploited to cause a DoS against applications that use the library via a specially crafted JPEG image file that consumes large amount of memory resources.
Solution: Update to "media-libs/jpeg-6b-r7" or later.
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