Why does loading this jpg using JavaIO give CMMException?

Question

ImageIO.read(imagePath) with this file gives a CMMException, why cant Java cope with this seemingly valid file http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/scratch/front.jpg

Answer 1

BTW, this problem is fixed in JDK8 (notice the commit at the bottom of http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7064516). I've confirmed that a pre-release build of JDK8 properly loads images that JDK7 fails on as described above.