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[slackware-security]  espgs/ghostscript (SSA:2008-062-01)

New espgs or ghostscript packages are available for 11.0, 12.0, and -current
to fix a buffer overflow.

Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog:
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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:
    http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-001.html
    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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 to find the new packages:
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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:
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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


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the packages as root:
# upgradepkg espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz


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