CVE-2009-0196 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the big2_decode_symbol_dict function (jbig2_symbol_dict.c) in the JBIG2 decoding library (jbig2dec) in Ghostscript 8.64 and probably earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a JBIG2 symbol dictionary segment with a large run length value.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00003.html http://osvdb.org/53492 http://secunia.com/advisories/34292 http://secunia.com/advisories/34667 http://secunia.com/advisories/34729 http://secunia.com/advisories/34732 http://secunia.com/advisories/35416 http://secunia.com/advisories/35559 http://secunia.com/advisories/35569 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-21/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-262288-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0060 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:095 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0421.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502586/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502757/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34445 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022029 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0983 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1708 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=337747 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10533 https://usn.ubuntu.com/757-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00460.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00461.html