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JPG/JPEG Vulnerability

Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Author: Richard S. Westmoreland
Permalink: 20040921030750393

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This is a very serious problem. A virus writer could easily exploit this by sending emails with image embedded html. I am not finding much information on how the jpeg would be crafted to take advantage of this exploit, but I could theorize a worse case scenario where a spreading virus would actually infect other jpegs. Not a pretty picture.

A brief article from Sophos:

Microsoft warns of critical JPEG image vulnerability

Read this to get the updates:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028

JPG/JPEG Vulnerability
Authored by: jgaylord on Saturday, October 23, 2004

This vulnerability can affect any software that was built using the .NET framework. Be certain that you check with your vendor to patch any software that was build with the framework.
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