Fedora 9 Ghostscript Update: Critical Integer Overflows and Threats

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)

interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which

implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and

an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript

translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like

those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally

used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to

non-PostScript printers.

If you need to display PostScript files or print them to

non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you

install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts

package.

Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks

(CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.

* Fri Mar 20 2009 Tim Waugh 8.63-2

- Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0583 (bug #487742) and CVE-2009-0584

(bug #487744).

* Mon Aug 4 2008 Tim Waugh 8.63-1

- 8.63. No longer need r8591 or incomplete-ccittfax patches.

- Compile without strict aliasing opts due to warnings across several

files.

- Don't run autogen.sh for main package, just for ijs which doesn't

ship with a configure script.

* Mon Jun 23 2008 Tim Waugh 8.62-4

- Applied patch to work around bug #229174.

- Applied patch from upstream to fix box_fill_path for shfill (bug #452348).

[ 1 ] Bug #487742 - CVE-2009-0583 ghostscript: Multiple integer overflows in the International Color Consortium Format Library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742

[ 2 ] Bug #487744 - CVE-2009-0584 ghostscript: Multiple insufficient upper-bounds checks on certain sizes in the International Color Consortium Format Library

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487744

su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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