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exactimage: denial of service

Package(s):exactimage CVE #(s):CVE-2013-1441
Created:September 11, 2013 Updated:September 11, 2013
Description: From the Debian advisory:

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2754-1 2013-09-11
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