Slackware 12.0: 2008-062-01 Moderate: Espgs Buffer Overflow Issue
slackware
March 2, 2008
New espgs or ghostscript packages are available for 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a buffer overflow
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz: This patched version of ESP Ghostscript fixes a buffer overflow. For more information on the security issue, please see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0411 Thanks to Chris Evans and Will Drewry of Google Security for their work on discovering and demonstrating the overflow. (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-3_slack11.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 11.0 package:
3d0f77a4654adeb4ea078ffa421208f2 espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-3_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package:
746589f38bb17ef543270c176e28759b espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware -current package:
36e98f8d699540a8ad93394269235afe ghostscript-8.62-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz
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