A vulnerability has been identified in Imager, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when attempting to write a 2 or 4 channel JPEG image or a 2 channel TGA image, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application via a malicious image.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Ole Kasper Olsen and Kjetil Kjernsmo
ChangeLog
2006-04-10 : Initial release
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