Scientific Linux: 2012-09-11 Moderate: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow Risk

Date:         Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:52:08 -0500
Reply-To:     Pat Riehecky 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Pat Riehecky 
Organization: Fermilab
Subject:      Security ERRATA Moderate: ghostscript on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:          Moderate: ghostscript security update
Issue Date:        2012-09-11
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2012-4405

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript 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.

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library
(icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF
file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Ghostscript. (CVE-2012-4405)

Users of Ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

SL5
   x86_64
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
     ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
   i386
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
     ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
SL6
   x86_64
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
     ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
     ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
   i386
     ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
     ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
     ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
     ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team