-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-11376 2010-07-23 01:57:13 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ghostscript Product : Fedora 12 Version : 8.71 Release : 7.fc12 URL : http://www.ghostscript.com/ Summary : A PostScript interpreter and renderer. Description : Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. If you need to display PostScript files or print them to non-PostScript printers, you should install ghostscript. If you install ghostscript, you also need to install the ghostscript-fonts package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes memory corruption when a PostScript stack overflow occurs (CVE-2010-1628). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jul 16 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-7 - Applied patch to fix CVE-2010-1628 (memory corruption at PS stack overflow, bug #592492). * Tue Mar 16 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-6 - Backported some more TIFF fixes (bug #573970). - Use upstream fix for TIFF default strip size (bug #571520). * Mon Mar 15 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-5 - Restore the TIFF default strip size of 0 (bug #571520). - Don't revert gdevcups y-axis change (bug #541604). - Reallocate memory in gdevcups when color depth changes (bug #563313). * Fri Mar 12 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-4.1 - Don't segfault closing tiffg3 device if opening failed (bug #571520). * Sat Feb 20 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-4 - Actually revert the upstream gdevcups changes (bug #563313). - Fixed pdf2dsc.ps (bug #565935). - Use fixed patch for LDFLAGS to make sure libgs.so gets a soname (bug #565935). * Fri Feb 19 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-2 - Fixed LDFLAGS when building dynamically linked executables (bug #565935). * Wed Feb 17 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.71-1 - 8.71 (bug #565935). * Tue Feb 16 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.70-6 - Reverted gdevcups duplex changes as they cause a regression (see bug #563313). * Mon Jan 25 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.70-5 - Fixed pdftoraster so that it waits for its sub-process to exit. - Another gdevcups duplex fix from upstream revision 10631 (bug #541604). * Fri Jan 22 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.70-4 - New ghostscript-cups sub-package for some additional filters: pdftoraster; pstopxl. CUPS package still owns pstoraster for now. * Thu Jan 21 2010 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.70-3 - Fixed gdevcups duplex output (bug #541604) by backporting upstream revision 10625. * Thu Dec 24 2009 Tim Waugh <[email protected]> 8.70-2 - Fix debugging output from gdevcups (CVE-2009-4270, bug #540760). - Harden ghostscript's debugging output functions (bug #540760). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #592492 - CVE-2010-1628 ghostscript: internal stack overflow due to recursive calls https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592492 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ghostscript' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
