Informational Comment: JPEG parsing vulnerabilities

Date:  19/05/07

URL: http://www.illegalaccess.org/java/ICC_Vulns.php

Problem:

When I read about the currently reported JPG and BMP parsing vulnerabilities in the JDK I thought "holy cow, again they didn't fix it right". Because these current issues base on the same set of problems that were discussed first time almost have a decade ago in:

Some funny remote implication within the serialisation API was discussed first time at Bellua 2005: