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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-090

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-090
Posted Apr 10, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

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.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2012-4405
SHA-256 | 52b38a58d8663a77ed183b461180c1ba5f7327f1147c9fc9ad9385aff5163ee1

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-090

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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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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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