Pufferüberlauf in espgs-ghostscript
ID: | SSA:2008-062-01 |
Distribution: | Slackware |
Plattformen: | Slackware -current, Slackware 11.0, Slackware 12.0 |
Datum: | So, 2. März 2008, 11:16 |
Referenzen: | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0411 |
Applikationen: | ESP Ghostscript |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] espgs/ghostscript (SSA:2008-062-01) New espgs or ghostscript packages are available for 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a buffer overflow. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz: This patched version of ESP Ghostscript fixes a buffer overflow. For more information on the security issue, please see: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-001.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0411 Thanks to Chris Evans and Will Drewry of Google Security for their work on discovering and demonstrating the overflow. (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-3_slack11.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/ap/ghostscript-8.62-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 11.0 package: 3d0f77a4654adeb4ea078ffa421208f2 espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-3_slack11.0.tgz Slackware 12.0 package: 746589f38bb17ef543270c176e28759b espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz Slackware -current package: 36e98f8d699540a8ad93394269235afe ghostscript-8.62-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg espgs-8.15.4-i486-3_slack12.0.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security@slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To leave the slackware-security mailing list: | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Send an email to majordomo@slackware.com with this text in the body of | | the email message: | | | | unsubscribe slackware-security | | | | You will get a confirmation message back containing instructions to | | complete the process. Please do not reply to this email address. | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHymgmakRjwEAQIjMRAjavAJ43IzpSX2Yz+6tZhhm1EPgWG3HRSACeO/gK 39Gbh3icdKlUCQ54k4Vrxto= =jAfY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |