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Fedora 9 Ghostscript Update: Critical Integer Overflows and Threats

Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks (CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-2883 2009-03-21 00:48:56 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : ghostscript Product : Fedora 9 Version : 8.63 Release : 2.fc9 URL : https://www.ghostscript.com/ Summary : A PostScript(TM) interpreter and renderer. Description : Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) 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. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. If you need to display PostScript files or print them to non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts package. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Security update for integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583) and upper bounds checks (CVE-2009-0584) in the ICC profile handling. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Fri Mar 20 2009 Tim Waugh 8.63-2 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2009-0583 (bug #487742) and CVE-2009-0584 (bug #487744). * Mon Aug 4 2008 Tim Waugh 8.63-1 - 8.63. No longer need r8591 or incomplete-ccittfax patches. - Compile without strict aliasing opts due to warnings across several files. - Don't run autogen.sh for main package, just for ijs which doesn't ship with a configure script. * Mon Jun 23 2008 Tim Waugh 8.62-4 -Applied patch to work around bug #229174. - Applied patch from upstream to fix box_fill_path for shfill (bug #452348). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #487742 - CVE-2009-0583 ghostscript: Multiple integer overflows in the International Color Consortium Format Library https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487742 [ 2 ] Bug #487744 - CVE-2009-0584 ghostscript: Multiple insufficient upper-bounds checks on certain sizes in the International Color Consortium Format Library https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487744 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . Crucial security notice for Fedora 9 focusing on integer overflow vulnerabilities and boundary issues in the ghostscript library.. Ghostscript Update,Fedora Security,Software Update,Open Source Advisory. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Mar 20, 2009 •Critical Fedora