DSA-2080-1 ghostscript -- several vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-6725   CVE-2008-3522   CVE-2008-6679   CVE-2009-0196   CVE-2009-0792   CVE-2009-4270   CVE-2010-1869  

Several security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, a GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user processes a malformed PDF or Postscript file. For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.71~dfsg-4. We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2080-1 ghostscript -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
01 Aug 2010
Affected Packages:
ghostscript
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-6725, CVE-2008-3522, CVE-2008-6679, CVE-2009-0196, CVE-2009-0792, CVE-2009-4270, CVE-2010-1869.
More information:

Several security issues have been discovered in Ghostscript, a GPL PostScript/PDF interpreter, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user processes a malformed PDF or Postscript file.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.71~dfsg-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your ghostscript packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-gpl_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-aladdin_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-doc_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-common_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/gs-esp_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_arm.deb
ARM EABI:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_armel.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs8_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs-dev_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/ghostscript-x_8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.