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asterisk -- denial of service vulnerability, local system access

Description:

Emmanouel Kellenis reports a denial of service vulnerability within asterisk. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in "format_jpeg.c". A large JPEG image could trigger this bug, potentially allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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portaudit: asterisk -- denial of service vulnerability, local system access

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>