{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-12-22T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ghostscript: Buffer overflow in BaseFont writer module for pdfwrite device",
    "id" : "493445",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493445"
  },
  "details" : [ "Buffer overflow in the BaseFont writer module in Ghostscript 8.62, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ps2pdf crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Postscript file." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0421",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "ghostscript-0:8.15.2-9.4.el5_3.7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-6679\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6679" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-6679",
  "csaw" : false
}