Synopsis: Moderate: ghostscript security update
Issue Date: 2012-09-11
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-4405
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Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript 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.
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in Ghostscript’s International Color Consortium Format library
(icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF
file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Ghostscript. (CVE-2012-4405)
Users of Ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
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SL5
x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
i386
ghostscript-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
SL6
x86_64
ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm
i386
ghostscript-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
ghostscript-devel-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
ghostscript-doc-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
ghostscript-gtk-8.70-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
