Package: ghostscript
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for ghostscript.

CVE-2007-2721[0]:
| The jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c for the JasPer
| JPEG-2000 library (libjasper) before 1.900 allows remote user-assisted
| attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt
| the heap via malformed image files, as originally demonstrated using
| imagemagick convert.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

This vulnerability is present in the embedded copy of 
jasper.

See patch on: http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2007-October/007877.html

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2721

Kind regards
Nico

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