Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2093-1 ghostscript -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 19 Aug 2010
- Affected Packages:
- ghostscript
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 584516.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-4897, CVE-2010-1628. - More information:
-
Two security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, the GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2009-4897
A buffer overflow was discovered that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document containing a long name.
- CVE-2010-1628
Dan Rosenberg discovered that ghostscript incorrectly handled certain recursive Postscript files. An attacker could execute arbitrary code via a PostScript file containing unlimited recursive procedure invocations, which trigger memory corruption in the stack of the interpreter.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.71~dfsg2-4
We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript package.
- CVE-2009-4897
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-common_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-gpl_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-aladdin_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-doc_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-esp_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-gpl_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.