Slackware 12.2 Ghostscript Update SSA: 2009-181-01 Severe DoS Risk
slackware
June 30, 2009
New ghostscript packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ghostscript-8.63-i486-3_slack12.2.tgz: Rebuilt. Patched various problems with ghostscript that could lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code when processing a malicious or malformed file. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0196 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0583 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0584 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0792 (* Security fix *)
Topics Covered
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 12.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/ghostscript-8.62-i486-6_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/ghostscript-8.63-i486-3_slack12.2.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 12.1 package:
052df55ec047d8ea8523dbd344ed75f1 ghostscript-8.62-i486-6_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package:
2a674db1adf4f1c77bdfecb0758df5a2 ghostscript-8.63-i486-3_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware -current package:
cfb4a6cad4e409fb6cfdcfc13208b8b6 ghostscript-8.64-i486-2.txz
Slackware64 -current package:
8b313fdb584c6533175b3adc2ceccf8f ghostscript-8.64-x86_64-2.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ghostscript-8.63-i486-3_slack12.2.tgz
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