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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2093-1] New ghostscript packages fix several vulnerabil

    From Giuseppe Iuculano@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 19 10:30:01 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2093-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano
    August 19, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : ghostscript
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : local(remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-4897 CVE-2010-1628
    Debian Bug : 584516

    Two security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL
    PostScript/PDF interpreter. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
    project identifies the following problems:


    CVE-2009-4897

    It was discovered a buffer overflow that allows remote attackers to
    execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF
    document containing a long name.


    CVE-2010-1628

    Dan Rosenberg discovered that ghostscript incorrectly handled certain
    recursive Postscript files. An attacker could execute arbitrary code
    via a PostScript file containing unlimited recursive procedure
    invocations, which trigger memory corruption in the stack of the
    interpreter.


    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5

    For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.71~dfsg2-4

    We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript package.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 106204 b0bbc6e0754c9a0675fadba1e90f1fbc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1536 546b30cfe6f76c0b5bd72cbeac6508d4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 12212309 42fc1b31aa745c3765c2fcd2da243236

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-common_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 29112 22d376a18c120a6dca73cbf6554c9f3c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-gpl_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28900 a749fa7a079f61432dba471524e3e7a5
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-aladdin_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28906 d3d81f5b998eb50a9e48715f2e60db6f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-doc_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2783318 79a9eb022df01d0bfb84f1b3506ca396
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-esp_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28898 02a99ada64c8e28343b0c1fefaeb4b90
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28902 996faec6be2dee08b2eb331db983cb42

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 65668 ee55e121b1c1a1801c129fe06d1227a6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 35680 877cb527ffaae7e6a19abbeacf22a195
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 762546 5b6765436e6cdac408ef3e20000574e4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2629510 ad41a261c12f9455a8b96275bce443d6

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 794466 ca2201142908c4577822396aefbdfecc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 63302 cb8c8e227c2093a27930e6110ee06f60
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2322954 feae1a7b2e1d580dd432c09f5b29b362
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 36518 b0c3e67cab7c22ec6aa9060db4d916b5

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 796792 ac25f9f9b589abe8f43c647bd0435667
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2179424 b7814c107c48d12d5238f1c4d333bf86
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 60116 034af0c1b3d514ebc507f0296be0ab60
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 35122 e47db394f8bc0e6b99bd544e33cad02e

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 62832 a74ba1060bdbe8e7c6d3ac30cf07711d

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