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SUSE: 2012:1222-1 Critical: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2012
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE releases an upgrade for ghostscript to address a significant buffer overflow vulnerability. Make sure to adhere to the guidelines for securely patching your system.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update fixes an array index error leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in ghostscript-library. CVE-2012-4405 has been assigned to this issue. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-4405 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sdksp2-ghostscript-devel-6813 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp2-ghostscript-devel-6813 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch slessp2-ghostscript-devel-6813 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sledsp2-ghostscript-devel-6813

References

#779700

Cross- CVE-2012-4405

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:1222-1
Rating: important

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