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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2434-2
December 08, 2014

ghostscript vulnerability
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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 versions:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libgs8 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.6

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2434-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2434-1
CVE-2014-9029

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.6

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