USN-1317-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities
4 January 2012
Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- ghostscript - The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter
Details
It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle memory
allocation when parsing certain malformed JPEG-2000 images. If a user or
automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an
attacker could cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary
code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-3520)
It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle certain
formatting operations when parsing JPEG-2000 images. If a user or automated
system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker
could cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges. (CVE-2008-3522)
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain malformed
TrueType fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
document containing a specially crafted font, an attacker could cause a
denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-3743)
It was discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain malformed
Type 2 fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
document containing a specially crafted font, an attacker could cause a
denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-4054)
Jonathan Foote discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled certain
malformed JPEG-2000 image files. If a user or automated system were tricked
into opening a specially crafted JPEG-2000 image file, an attacker could
cause Ghostscript to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user
privileges. (CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Related notices
- USN-742-1: libjasper1, libjasper-1.701-1, jasper
- USN-1315-1: libjasper1, jasper