USN-501-2: Ghostscript vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10

Packages

• ghostscript -
• gs-gpl -

Details

USN-501-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Jasper. This update provides the
corresponding update for the Jasper internal to Ghostscript.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Jasper did not correctly handle corrupted JPEG2000
images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPG, a
remote attacker could cause the application using libjasper to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• libgs8 - 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 7.04

• gs-gpl - 8.54.dfsg.1-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• gs-gpl - 8.50-1.1ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2007-2721

Related notices

• USN-501-1: libjasper-1.701-1