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Scientific Linux: 2009-03-19 Moderate: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow Risks

Calendar Mar 20, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory buffer overflow ghostscript moderate severity heap overflow input validation Scientific Linux
Moderate: ghostscript security update 
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:41 -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:	2009-03-19
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0583 CVE-2009-0584

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)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm
hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.i386.rpm
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.17.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.05-32.1.17.x86_64.rpm
hpijs-1.3-32.1.17.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.src.rpm
 i386:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson