CVE-2008-6679

Synopsis Moderate: ghostscript security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team ...

Debian Bug report logs - #524803 ghostscript: multiple vulnerabilities Package: ghostscript; Maintainer for ghostscript is Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@listsdebianorg>; Source for ghostscript is src:ghostscript (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: "Michael S Gilbert" <michaelsgilbert@gmailcom> Date: Mon, ...

It was discovered that Ghostscript contained a buffer underflow in its CCITTFax decoding filter If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program (CVE-2007-6725) ...

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 862dfsg1-32lenny4 For the unstable distribution (sid), these pr ...