Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-151 - An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Ghostscript. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:151
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : ghostscript
Date : September 12, 2012
Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:
A security issue was identified and fixed in ghostscript:
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was
found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library
(icclib). An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or
PDF file with embedded images that would cause Ghostscript to crash
or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running Ghostscript (CVE-2012-4405).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4405
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5:
977ae6ecfbc3bff97bd4eadfe26df0ee mes5/i586/ghostscript-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
2e43a0e9c56340e57cfab25d598025dd mes5/i586/ghostscript-common-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
ea8cb18b773aba338169aa2ebbf04b95 mes5/i586/ghostscript-doc-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
5df859b07b651e1cad51ea57723fa5ff mes5/i586/ghostscript-dvipdf-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
aae418922c445203bdaa3d53ef901f57 mes5/i586/ghostscript-module-X-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
f19c0449254508adbc651a56388fe88f mes5/i586/ghostscript-X-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
6256d49895b9046c1582004d5787477a mes5/i586/libgs8-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
c346efc4c540ee68d4f262a62690386d mes5/i586/libgs8-devel-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
11ce657b5614a969ea25d71cb8aae347 mes5/i586/libijs1-0.35-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
1edca661d3a9fdcc2df971e4263696c2 mes5/i586/libijs1-devel-0.35-62.6mdvmes5.2.i586.rpm
dda7b0b949469a08db02523a4705fa9e mes5/SRPMS/ghostscript-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64:
e5180ea0a88b1bc012c29c846771563f mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
0d1fd9f25543c91e8fa66cbf68f70d7d mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-common-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
2091715e49a9403a13dde41c3690114a mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-doc-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
ded9ad507367731d19394034607de9ba mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-dvipdf-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
178b444a8bd86d8487d6635b42df9c5a mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-module-X-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
a14d48537ed8e7fc3ac6fc1038b40503 mes5/x86_64/ghostscript-X-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
588cfaf795df7fa453831878822871f1 mes5/x86_64/lib64gs8-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
59064bd56076e1040c8c92a84fb0f045 mes5/x86_64/lib64gs8-devel-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
3a5f902af8cb8c71971f1744a3760ef9 mes5/x86_64/lib64ijs1-0.35-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
941c215f139a3ce995685fb138cceb89 mes5/x86_64/lib64ijs1-devel-0.35-62.6mdvmes5.2.x86_64.rpm
dda7b0b949469a08db02523a4705fa9e mes5/SRPMS/ghostscript-8.63-62.6mdvmes5.2.src.rpm
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