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Gentoo: GLSA-200803-14 Normal: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2008
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Critical vulnerability in Ghostscript presents a buffer overflow risk, enabling remote code execution through compromised PostScript documents. Urgent measures required.
A stack-based buffer overflow has been discovered in Ghostscript, allowing arbitrary code execution.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-14
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Ghostscript: Buffer overflow
      Date: March 08, 2008
      Bugs: #208999
        ID: 200803-14


Synopsis
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A stack-based buffer overflow has been discovered in Ghostscript,
allowing arbitrary code execution.

Background
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Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for
PostScript and PDF.

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