USN-1315-1: JasPer vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• jasper - Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files

Details

Jonathan Foote 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 11.10

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.04.1

Ubuntu 10.10

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.10.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libjasper1 - 1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References

• CVE-2011-4516
• CVE-2011-4517

Related notices

• USN-1317-1: libgs8, ghostscript