ubuntu · CVE-2012-2806

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Priority: medium Published: 2012-08-13 20:55:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 20:32:27 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-2806 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libjpeg-turbo), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, upstream): DNE 3, not-affected 2, released 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_sos function in jdmarker.c in libjpeg-turbo 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in the header of a JPEG image.

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