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HistoryAug 19, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

ghostscript - several vulnerabilities

2010-08-1900:00:00
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9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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
    A buffer overflow was discovered 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.

9.3 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C