USN-2060-1: libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• libjpeg-turbo - library for handling JPEG files
• libjpeg6b - library for handling JPEG files

Details

Michal Zalewski discovered that libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo incorrectly
handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue with
a specially-crafted JPEG file to possibly expose sensitive information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10

• libjpeg-turbo8 - 1.3.0-0ubuntu1.1
• libjpeg62 - 6b1-3ubuntu1.13.10.1
• libturbojpeg - 1.3.0-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 13.04

• libjpeg-turbo8 - 1.2.1-0ubuntu2.13.04.1
• libjpeg62 - 6b1-3ubuntu1.13.04.1
• libturbojpeg - 1.2.1-0ubuntu2.13.04.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• libjpeg-turbo8 - 1.2.1-0ubuntu2.12.10.1
• libjpeg62 - 6b1-2ubuntu2.1
• libturbojpeg - 1.2.1-0ubuntu2.12.10.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libjpeg-turbo8 - 1.1.90+svn733-0ubuntu4.3
• libjpeg62 - 6b1-2ubuntu1.1
• libturbojpeg - 1.1.90+svn733-0ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 10.04

• libjpeg62 - 6b-15ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-6629
• CVE-2013-6630

Related notices

• USN-2052-1: firefox
• USN-2053-1: thunderbird