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Ubuntu 10.04: USN-1581-1 Moderate Advisory: Ghostscript Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2012
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A vulnerability in Ghostscript on Ubuntu may allow crashes or code execution through specially designed files. Updating is essential for protecting your system.
Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- ghostscript: The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter

Details:

Marc Schönefeld discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle

certain image files. If a user or automated system were tricked into

opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of

service and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libgs8                          8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.5

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
  libgs8                          8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1581-1

CVE-2012-4405

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September 24, 2012

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security advisory denial of service code execution package update ghostscript ubuntu moderate risk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3.5

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