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 (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. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:151-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : ghostscript
Date : October 5, 2012
Affected: 2011.
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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.
Update:
Packages for Mandriva Linux 2011 is being provided.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4405
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2011:
b278dfabdfbac34c246e40b38e85ccec 2011/i586/ghostscript-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
bc828255a307c87ed0a5d46f60e57a93 2011/i586/ghostscript-common-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
7f68d9678e6dad3002b93b611b307239 2011/i586/ghostscript-doc-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
3d78015afb7b5327bbeaab19548c0da5 2011/i586/ghostscript-dvipdf-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
cc20afcfd48d1290c4fe0f1f1c069501 2011/i586/ghostscript-module-X-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
37070a25052f58d08c6b7eccf66f5ef2 2011/i586/ghostscript-X-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
0f0d91db699e3379b70ef161e9cc8d4b 2011/i586/libgs9-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
18567edd8bfa9238f695f3bcc29a85c3 2011/i586/libgs-devel-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
b68482e1e0a2a25c48a3408327efed67 2011/i586/libijs1-0.35-76.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
9702c9bb60b3fde6560aabefe2f1a131 2011/i586/libijs-devel-0.35-76.1-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm
e763b3dd6073d717b7f802132bfcd16d 2011/SRPMS/ghostscript-9.02-1.1.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2011/X86_64:
777aa3e5b4105c9af109ff70975462c7 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
77855d411b694041a2c3b0ef50cdaa91 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-common-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
a5837b0df7bd5440c61a68cbf6384cad 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-doc-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
8a63ae70d50c6da655fbd5b14f46a26c 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-dvipdf-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
76ba47df5717e32adb4eb2f9a8b3ddaf 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-module-X-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
196bdb5f04db5028e2dfde55ccfc99c9 2011/x86_64/ghostscript-X-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
5a55d8ac0538a7c6b8ba93c8affebd20 2011/x86_64/lib64gs9-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
622a318d67f54da350cd13b214491173 2011/x86_64/lib64gs-devel-9.02-1.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
00940be7c4807e643ec2b143c6056ecb 2011/x86_64/lib64ijs1-0.35-76.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
0a2459eb3921dffc5847b512689dd012 2011/x86_64/lib64ijs-devel-0.35-76.1-mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm
e763b3dd6073d717b7f802132bfcd16d 2011/SRPMS/ghostscript-9.02-1.1.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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