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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2434-1
December 08, 2014
jasper vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 14.10
– Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
– Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
JasPer could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a
specially crafted file.
Software Description:
– jasper: Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 files
Details:
Jose Duart discovered that JasPer incorrectly handled certain malformed
JPEG-2000 image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted JPEG-2000 image file, a remote attacker could cause JasPer to crash
or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.10:
libjasper1 1.900.1-debian1-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libjasper1 1.900.1-14ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libjasper1 1.900.1-13ubuntu0.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2434-1
CVE-2014-9029
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-debian1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-14ubuntu3.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jasper/1.900.1-13ubuntu0.1
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