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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2056-1 Moderate: DjVuLibre Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2013
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DjVuLibre might encounter stability problems or permit unapproved applications on Ubuntu 12.04; upgrade to the newest release to resolve these concerns.
DjVuLibre could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

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

a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- djvulibre: DjVu image format library and tools

Details:

It was discovered that DjVuLibre incorrectly handled certain memory

operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a

specially crafted DjVu file, applications could be made to crash, resulting

in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service memory issue ubuntults djvulibre

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libdjvulibre21                  3.5.24-9ubuntu0.1

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2012-6535

December 16, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service memory issue ubuntults djvulibre

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/djvulibre/3.5.24-9ubuntu0.1

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