USN-2434-2: Ghostscript vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 10.04

• libgs8 - 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-9029

Related notices

• USN-2434-1: libjasper-runtime, jasper, libjasper1, libjasper-dev