Bug 493379 (CVE-2009-0196)

Summary: CVE-2009-0196 ghostscript: Missing boundary check in Ghostscript's jbig2dec library
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On: 491857, 491858, 495915, 495916, 495917    
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-04-01 15:45:37 UTC 
A missing boundary check flaw was found in the Ghostscript's JBIG2 decoding library. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PDF file which could
cause Ghostscript to crash, or, potentially execute arbitrary code, when
opened by the victim.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research for
responsibly reporting this flaw.
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2009-04-01 16:15:47 UTC 
This issue was reported by Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.
Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2009-04-02 08:30:54 UTC 
Created attachment 337747 [details]
Upstream patch from Ralph Giles
Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2009-04-10 19:17:38 UTC 
Secunia advisory:
  http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-21/
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-04-14 17:54:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:0421 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0421.html
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 17:11:14 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 21:49:33 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-6.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2009-04-15 21:50:06 UTC 
ghostscript-8.63-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.