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Debian: DSA-1510-1 Critical: Ghostscript Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2008
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Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the color space handling code of the Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might result in the execution of arbitrary code if ...

Summary


For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.01-6 of gs-gpl and 7.07.1-9sarge1 of gs-esp.

The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gs-esp and gs-gpl packages.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 37500 ce05f327ba06e067f8df78cb60ad386a
Size/MD5 checksum: 6795608 20dfdc45c3aeb9893b75d41087f828d9
Size/MD5 checksum: 5531748 b9fed961d538c0aeb841f7e46bc80857
Size/MD5 checksum: 830 5b84dd5a5171b74045c110eb...

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