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Scientific Linux 3.x/4.x Moderate: Ghostscript Security Update

Calendar Apr 15, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory moderate update buffer overflow ghostscript scientific linux
Moderate: ghostscript security update 
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:35:37 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: ghostscript on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: ghostscript security update
Issue date:	2009-04-14
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-6725 CVE-2008-6679 CVE-2009-0196
 CVE-2009-0792

It was discovered that the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0345 did
not address all possible integer overflow flaws 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 that could cause Ghostscript
to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened.
(CVE-2009-0792)

A buffer overflow flaw and multiple missing boundary checks were found
in Ghostscript. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript
or PDF file that could cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially,
execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2008-6679, CVE-2007-6725,
CVE-2009-0196)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.20.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.20.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.20.i386.rpm
hpijs-1.3-32.1.20.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.20.i386.rpm
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.20.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.20.x86_64.rpm
hpijs-1.3-32.1.20.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.i386.rpm
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.8.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson