Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2434-1
8th December, 2014
jasper vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.
Software description
- jasper
– Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files
Details
Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
libjasper1
1.900.1-debian1-2ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libjasper1
1.900.1-14ubuntu3.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libjasper1
1.900.1-13ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.