A possible solution is to build Ghostscript with the new liblcms2. At
least for me it does not crash any more on your EPS files. But as this
is a major change and the upstream developers of Ghostscript think that
there are still bugs, and this case of Apple-generated EPS files is the
only know cause of Ghostscript to segfault, I cannot put this change
into Oneiric. But I make it available for you and everyone who actually
suffers this problem. It is on my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ppa

Please follow the instructions under "Adding this PPA to your system".
After that update your system, for example via

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After more testing (by me, by you, and by the development of Ubuntu
12.04) I will check whether we can upload this package as SRU (Stable
Release Update) for Oneiric. Especially it needs to be tested whether
the switchover from liblcms1 to liblcms2 does not introduce any
regressions.


** Also affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: High
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Medium
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu P-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Invalid => Won't Fix

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: Invalid => Won't Fix

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  Apple-generated EPS figures in LaTeX-generated PS file cause
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