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On 2008-02-05T11:28:39+00:00 Tomas wrote:

Chris Evans of Google security team has reported a buffer overflow in
zseticcspace() function in zicc.c.  The issue is over-trust of the length of a
postscript array which an attacker can set to an arbitrary length.

This issue can lead to arbitrary code execution.

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gpl/+bug/196397/comments/0

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On 2008-02-05T17:11:58+00:00 Tomas wrote:

Created attachment 294020
Patch proposed by Werner Fink

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On 2008-02-27T16:42:47+00:00 Tomas wrote:

Chris Evans' advisory is public now, lifting embargo:

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-001.html

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gpl/+bug/196397/comments/2

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On 2008-02-27T17:44:11+00:00 Fedora wrote:

ghostscript-8.15.4-4.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

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On 2008-02-28T21:40:02+00:00 Fedora wrote:

ghostscript-8.61-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If 
problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ghostscript'.  You can provide 
feedback for this update here: 
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-1998

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gpl/+bug/196397/comments/5

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On 2008-03-03T18:24:12+00:00 Fedora wrote:

ghostscript-8.61-8.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable
repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this
bug report.

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gpl/+bug/196397/comments/6

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On 2008-03-06T16:39:07+00:00 Fedora wrote:

ghostscript-8.15.4-4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable
repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this
bug report.

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gpl/+bug/196397/comments/7


** Changed in: ghostscript (Fedora)
   Importance: Unknown => High

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Title:
  [ghostscript] [CVE-2008-0411] buffer overflow in the color space
  handling code

Status in GS-GPL:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gs-esp package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gs-gpl package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ghostscript source package in Dapper:
  Invalid
Status in gs-esp source package in Dapper:
  Fix Released
Status in gs-gpl source package in Dapper:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript source package in Edgy:
  Invalid
Status in gs-esp source package in Edgy:
  Fix Released
Status in gs-gpl source package in Edgy:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript source package in Feisty:
  Invalid
Status in gs-esp source package in Feisty:
  Fix Released
Status in gs-gpl source package in Feisty:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript source package in Gutsy:
  Fix Released
Status in gs-esp source package in Gutsy:
  Invalid
Status in gs-gpl source package in Gutsy:
  Invalid
Status in ghostscript package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript package in Fedora:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript package in Gentoo Linux:
  Fix Released
Status in ghostscript package in Mandriva:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gs-gpl

  References:
  DSA-1510-1 (http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1510)

  Quoting:
  "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 a user is tricked into processing
  a malformed file."

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