gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-37.xml

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<glsa id="200903-37">
  <title>Ghostscript: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple integer overflows in the Ghostscript ICC library might allow for
    user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ghostscript-gpl ghostscript-esp ghostscript-gnu</product>
  <announced>March 23, 2009</announced>
  <revised>March 23, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>261087</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gpl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.64-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.64-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-text/ghostscript-gnu" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">8.62.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.62.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-text/ghostscript-esp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">8.15.4-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and the
    Portable Document Format (PDF).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Jan Lieskovsky from the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered the
    following vulnerabilities in Ghostscript's ICC Library:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Multiple integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583).</li>
    <li>Multiple
    insufficient bounds checks on certain variable sizes
    (CVE-2009-0584).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
    PostScript file containing images and a malicious ICC profile, possibly
    resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the
    user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All GPL Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r2&quot;</code>
    <p>
    All GNU Ghostscript users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-text/ghostscript-gnu-8.62.0&quot;</code>
    <p>
    We recommend that users unmerge ESP Ghostscript and use GPL or GNU
    Ghostscript instead:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --unmerge &quot;app-text/ghostscript-esp&quot;</code>
    <p>
    For installation instructions, see above.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0583">CVE-2009-0583</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0584">CVE-2009-0584</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:18:05 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:04:31 +0000">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:39:36 +0000">
    a3li
  </metadata>
</glsa>