Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-090 - 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-2013:090
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : argyllcms
Date : April 9, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
A security issue was identified and fixed in argyllcms:
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:
0089a269bf8b2ad2b9a27895b0e89dba mbs1/x86_64/argyllcms-1.4.0-2.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
074bbeb983787d147c7cc6be14b6a6ee mbs1/SRPMS/argyllcms-1.4.0-2.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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