1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1581-1

USN-1581-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

Publication date

24 September 2012

Overview

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

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.

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
8.04 hardy libgs8 –  8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3.5
10.04 lucid libgs8 –  8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.5

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