Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A function in the JasPer JPEG-2000 library before 1.900 could allow a remote user-assisted attack to cause a crash and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files.
Newer versions of ghostscript contain an embedded copy of libjasper and as such is vulnerable to this issue.
Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
Affected
ghostscript on Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2721 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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