USN-2697-1: Ghostscript vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• ghostscript - PostScript and PDF interpreter

Details

William Robinet and Stefan Cornelius discovered that Ghostscript did not
correctly handle certain Postscript files. If a user or automated system
were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause
a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04

• libgs9 - 9.15+dfsg-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• libgs9 - 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.4

Ubuntu 12.04

• libgs9 - 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.3

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

References

• CVE-2015-3228