Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2434-2
8th December, 2014
ghostscript vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary
Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software description
- ghostscript
– PostScript and PDF interpreter
Details
USN-2434-1 fixed a vulnerability in JasPer. This update provides the
corresponding fix for the JasPer library embedded in the Ghostscript
package.
Original advisory 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 10.04 LTS:
-
libgs8
8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.6
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.