Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-089 - An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library (icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Ghostscript. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:089
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : icclib
Date : April 9, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
A security issue was identified and fixed in icclib:
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library
(icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or
PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash
or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Ghostscript (CVE-2012-4405).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4405
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0301
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
1e76597c7dfc8dfcfc81d8798b2475f1 mbs1/x86_64/icclib-2.13-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
8f999cb58f2ddb7390c14e4513795f3d mbs1/x86_64/lib64icc2-2.13-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
dff6ae748a8d4ab89cb3525ff2dafa75 mbs1/x86_64/lib64icc-devel-2.13-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
a0462f9d5db09659065952472e65b9ab mbs1/SRPMS/icclib-2.13-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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