CESA-2008:0155: RHSA-2008:0155
Description
Important: ghostscript security updateGhostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files, or printing themto non-PostScript printers.Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reported a stack-based bufferoverflow flaw in Ghostscript's zseticcspace() function. An attacker couldcreate a malicious PostScript file that would cause Ghostscript to executearbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2008-0411)These updated packages also fix a bug, which prevented the pxlmono printerdriver from producing valid output on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,which contain a backported patch to resolve these issues.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-ghostscript
- centos-upgrade-ghostscript-devel
- centos-upgrade-ghostscript-gtk
- centos-upgrade-hpijs
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