Summary
The remote host is missing an update to jasper
announced via advisory DSA 2036-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202036-1
Insight
It was discovered that the JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime library allowed an attacker to create a crafted input file that could lead to denial of service and heap corruption.
Besides addressing this vulnerability, this updates also addresses a regression introduced in the security fix for CVE-2008-3521, applied before Debian Lenny's release, that could cause errors when reading some JPEG input files.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.900.1-5.1+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.900.1-6.
We recommend that you upgrade your jasper package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2721, CVE-2008-3521 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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