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Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

by sin-ack sin-ack.github.io 7 min read

I got the chance to investigate an interesting bug in SerenityOS this week. It was related to the decoding of JPG images in the operating system. For some reason, when a JPG image is viewed, it comes out like this: Lenna, showing up with incorrect colors. Weird, huh? Also seems like a simple confusion of RGB vs. BGR…
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