[ MDVSA-2009:165 ] ghostscript

[dude67]

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Package : ghostscript
Date : July 28, 2009
Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:

Multiple security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed
in ghostscript:

Multiple integer overflows in JasPer 1.900.1 might allow
context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via a crafted
image file, related to integer multiplication for memory allocation
(CVE-2008-3520).

Buffer overflow in the jas_stream_printf function in
libjasper/base/jas_stream.c in JasPer 1.900.1 might allow
context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact via
vectors related to the mif_hdr_put function and use of vsprintf
(CVE-2008-3522).

Previousely the ghostscript packages were statically built against
a bundled and private copy of the jasper library. This update makes
ghostscript link against the shared system jasper library which
makes it easier to address presumptive future security issues in the
jasper library.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3520
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3522
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