Jonathan Foote discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : jasper vulnerabilities (USN-1315-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57357

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