| Description: | Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM)interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, whichimplements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) andan interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Multiple integer overflow flaws which could lead to heap-based bufferoverflows, as well as multiple insufficient input validation flaws, werefound in Ghostscript's International Color Consortium Format library(icclib). Using specially-crafted ICC profiles, an attacker could create amalicious PostScript or PDF file with embedded images which could causeGhostscript to crash, or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when openedby 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. |