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Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1315-1 Medium: jasper Remote Code Execution Risk

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1315-1
December 20, 2011

jasper vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.

Software Description:
- 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 LTS:
  libjasper1                      1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.04.1

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1315-1
  CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.04.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.04.1


Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1315-1 Medium: jasper Remote Code Execution Risk

ubuntu
Calendar Grey December 20, 2011
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The improper processing of TIFF images by LibTIFF may result in system failures or unintended code execution on vulnerable Debian installations.
JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

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 LTS: libjasper1 1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.04.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1315-1

CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517

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December 20, 2011

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu2.11.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-7ubuntu0.10.04.1

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