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Ubuntu 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : ghostscript, gs-gpl vulnerability (USN-501-2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28105

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-501-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Jasper. This update provides the corresponding update for the Jasper internal to Ghostscript.

It was discovered that Jasper did not correctly handle corrupted JPEG2000 images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted JPG, a remote attacker could cause the application using libjasper to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/501-2/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28105

File Name: ubuntu_USN-501-2.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-aladdin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-esp-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-esp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-esp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-doc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gs-gpl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2721

USN: 501-2