[PLUG] First JPEG virus is out there

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Sep 28 11:09:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> Recently, libraries within libxpm4, ImageMagick, gtk2, gdk-pixbuf, and
> Mozilla have all been found vulnerable to certain buffer-overflow
> exploits.

Paul,

   Therefore, there are frantic efforts under way at the developers and
distributors. I expect a bunch of update messages soon. Thanks for the
explanation.

Rich

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