ubuntu · CVE-2016-6237

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2017-02-02 16:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:38 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6237 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lepton), 11 status rows across 11 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, ignored 3, not-affected 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The build_huffcodes function in lepton/jpgcoder.cc in Dropbox lepton 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted jpeg file.

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