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TITLE:
Gentoo update for jpeg

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20563

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20563/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

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.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889

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