[PLUG] First JPEG virus is out there
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Sep 28 11:31:19 UTC 2004
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> Recently, libraries within libxpm4, ImageMagick, gtk2, gdk-pixbuf,
>> and Mozilla have all been found vulnerable to certain
>> buffer-overflow exploits.
>
> Therefore, there are frantic efforts under way at the developers
> and distributors. I expect a bunch of update messages soon. Thanks
> for the explanation.
Actually, these are the projects that already have fixes. See, for
example, the Linux Weekly News summary of security alerts issued for
Slackware:
http://lwn.net/Alerts/Slackware/
The Slackware packagers have already released fixes for several of the
announced image-rendering vulnerabilities.
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>
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