Package : gs-esp / gs-gpl Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-0411
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.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 of gs-gpl and 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 of gs-esp.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 8.01-6 of gs-gpl and 7.07.1-9sarge1 of gs-esp.
The unstable distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gs-esp and gs-gpl packages.
Upgrade instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------