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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0345-01 Moderate: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical Ghostscript security update is out for Red Hat, fixing multiple vulnerabilities. Safeguard your system and update right away!
Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

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.
Multiple integer overflow flaws which could lead to heap-based buffer overflows, as well as multiple insufficient input validation flaws, were found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library (icclib). Using specially-crafted ICC profiles, an attacker could create a malicious PostScript or PDF file with embedded images which could cause Ghostscript to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened by the victim. (CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584)
All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0583 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0584 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3:
Source:
i386: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.i386.rpm
ia64: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.ia64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.ia64.rpm ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.ia64.rpm hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.ia64.rpm
ppc: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.ppc.rpm ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.ppc64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.ppc.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.ppc64.rpm ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.ppc.rpm hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.ppc.rpm
s390: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.s390.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.s390.rpm ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.s390.rpm hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.s390.rpm
s390x: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.s390.rpm ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.s390x.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.s390.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.s390x.rpm ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.s390x.rpm hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.s390x.rpm
x86_64: ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.x86_64.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm ghostscript-debuginfo-7.05-32.1.17.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0345-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0345.html
Issue date: 2009-03-19

Topic

Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update ghostscript Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Relevant Releases Architectures

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Desktop version 3 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

487742 - CVE-2009-0583 ghostscript: Multiple integer overflows in the International Color Consortium Format Library

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

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