Issued:

2009-03-19

Updated:

2009-03-19

RHSA-2009:0345 - Moderate: ghostscript security update

Synopsis

Moderate: ghostscript security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) 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.

Multiple integer overflow flaws which could lead to heap-based buffer overflows, as well as multiple insufficient input validation flaws, were found in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library (icclib). Using specially-crafted ICC profiles, an attacker could create a malicious PostScript or PDF file with embedded images which could cause Ghostscript to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened by the victim. (CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584)

All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.src.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ia64.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390x.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.src.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ia64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.i386.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ppc64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ia64.rpm
• ghostscript-devel-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.x86_64.rpm
• ghostscript-gtk-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-7.07-33.2.el4_7.5.ppc.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.s390.rpm
• ghostscript-8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.4.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 487742
• This content is not included.BZ - 487744

CVEs

• CVE-2009-0584
• CVE-2009-0583

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.